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IUSSP Bulletin - Issue 65, Sept 2024


December 2, 2024

N-IUSSP:  Stagnating mortality convergence across European regions in recent years
Markus Sauerberg, Florian Bonnet, Carlo-Giovanni Camarda and Pavel Grigoriev

 


Call for Abstracts:

New ways of transcribing, visualizing, publishing, and providing access to data on epidemics and contagious diseases
Online, 18 June 2025

  • Deadline for abstract submission: 1 March 2025

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.

  • Deadline for nominations: 2 December 2024

 

 Members News


In Memoriam

Susan 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).

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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.

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New publications from members

 

Human Evolutionary Demography, Open Book Publishers, 2024, edited by Oskar Burger, Ronald Lee and Rebecca Sear.

 

Everything you always wanted to know about IUSSP…

Feedback from members via the recent survey and answers from the IUSSP Secretariat.

 

Data Revolution

IUSSP Statement:  Defining and successfully accomplishing the Data Revolution – The perspective of Demographers

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.

 

 

SDSN/IUSSP Report: Harnessing the Data Revolution for Development -Issues in the design and monitoring of SDG indicators


 

IUSSP Panel on Digital Demography


IUSSP Panel on Population Perspectives and Demographic Methods to Strengthen Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems


IUSSP/CODATA Scientific Panel on FAIR Vocabularies

 

For more information see: Demography and the Data Revolution


 

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. 


 


 
 Distance Training 

 

Tools for Demographic Estimation 

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

 

Population Analysis for Policies & Programmes 

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.