What's newIUSSP Bulletin - Issue 66, Dec 2024 IUSSP Opposes the Removal of Statistical and Scientific Data from US Government Websites
The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population IUSSP strongly endorses the statement made on 1 February 2025 by the Population Association of America (PAA) and the Association of Population Centers (APC) expressing alarm about US Federal Agencies purging statistical and scientific data. The removal of these data, even temporarily, puts the integrity of these data at risk. Removing data from secure portals raises grave concerns about the current US Administration’s willingness to undermine scientific information which serves the health and well-being of Americans. If scientists cannot access these data, policymakers’ ability to track changes in population issues over time and space will be gravely impeded. The IUSSP requests that access to impacted datasets be restored and future attacks prevented.  February 17, 2025 N-IUSSP: Are grandparents happier? Family ties and depression in later life
Call for Abstracts:
Demographic and Health Consequences of Violence and Armed Conflict
International Population Conference (IPC2025)13-18 July 2025, Brisbane, Australia
Call for host country proposals for IPC 2029
The IUSSP Council invites national population associations and other national institutions to consider hosting the XXXI International Population Conference in 2029. IUSSP-Mattei Dogan Foundation Award for Comparative Research in Demography Call for applications 2025 – mid-career researchers.
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Members News In MemoriamSusan Cotts Watkins (1938-2024) Susan Cotts Watkins died peacefully in her sleep at her home in Santa Monica on August 26, 2024, at the age of 85. Susan was an eminent demographer and sociologist and a leader in research on social networks, gender, fertility, and AIDS in Africa. She had joined the IUSSP in 1981 and served as a member of the Committee on Anthropological Demography (1998-2002).  Pierre Cantrelle (1926-2024) Pierre Cantrelle, demographer at ORSTOM/IRD, died on November 7 at the age of 98. He played an important role in the development of African demography and was a long-time active member of the IUSSP, which he had joined in 1960. He helped organize the 1st African Regional Conference on Population, in Accra in 1971, organized by UNECA and IUSSP, whose proceedings are included in the volume Population in African Development, edited by Pierre Cantrelle and published by the IUSSP in 1974. | ||
New publications from members
An Introduction to Population Studies – Global Perspective, by Frank Trovato (University of Alberta) |  | |
Everything you always wanted to know about IUSSP… Feedback from members via the recent survey and answers from the IUSSP Secretariat. | ||
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IUSSP members are invited to read and comment on recommendations sent to the UN Secretary General's Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development.
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For more information see: Demography and the Data Revolution
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IUSSP Project on Family Planning, Fertility and Urban Development A project to support early career researchers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to produce policy-relevant evidence on family planning and fertility in cities and towns and their links to urban welfare funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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