What's newIUSSP Bulletin - Issue 67, March 2025 The end of the DHS programme: a major issue for research and sustainable development
The shutdown of USAID by the Trump administration has resulted in a sudden suspension of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) programme. These surveys provide a unique, freely accessible and comparable data source covering several continents and decades. Ending the programme and making it difficult for researchers to access these data compromises international research efforts both in the Global South and North.  March 24, 2025 N-IUSSP: Are population policies still relevant in an era of climate change?
Lecture: Contraceptive Transitions: Some Highlights from a New Review of Evidence, at the "Lundis de l'Ined", Online, 24 March 2025 from 10:30 to 11:30 UTC Call for Abstracts: Gender, Reproduction and Family Dynamics in the Post-Pandemic Era, Side Meeting to the IPC 2025, at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, 13 July 2025, 9am-3pm
Special Issue 2026 in Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) on "Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course"
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. | ||
Members News
In MemoriamRichard A. Easterlin (1926-2024)
Professor Richard (Dick) Easterlin passed away on 16 December 2024, at the age of 98. An IUSSP member since 1962, he received the IUSSP Laureate Award in 2010 in recognition of his many path-breaking contributions to population sciences and his direct and indirect influence on generations of population sciences scholars. Mayanka Ambade (1991-2025)
Mayanka Ambade passed away unexpectedly on 26 January 2025, at the age of 33. She was a member of the IUSSP Early Career Perspectives Panel. As part of the Panel's activities, she recently organized a preconference workshop at the Asian Population Association Conference in Kathmandu to help early career researchers improve their presentations. | ||
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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 | This site represents the major output arising from a joint IUSSP and UNFPA project to produce a single volume containing updated tools for demographic estimation from limited, deficient and defective data |
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 | This course introduces users to the methods used by demographers to analyse population data, and the sources of this data and the methods used to collect this data. Throughout the course, students are introduced to the types of issues of interest to demographers through real examples. Included are sessions that introduce broad areas of research through discussion of both global and national trends and sessions that show how demographic methods may be used in researching a range of areas, such as reproductive health, morbidity and health profiles, and the effects of ageing on a population. |