Tom A Moultrie

Professor of Demography, Centre For Actuarial Research (CARe)
University of Cape Town

tom.moultrie@uct.ac.za

Field of Study: Demography
 
Specialization: Estimates and Projections, Fertility, Mathematical Demography
 
Regional focus: Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Demography, 2002
 
Working languages: English
Afrikaans
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Population Association of America (PAA), Union for African Population Studies (UAPS)
 


Curriculum Vitae:
CVTM2025_IUSSP.pdf
 
Professional Summary:

I am a South African born and bred demographer, trained at the LSHTM, and returned to take up a post at the University of Cape Town in 2002, and promoted ad hominem to professor in 2015. My interests lie primarily in the fields of demographic estimation (I was PI on the project to update UN Manual X, now available at demographicestimation.iussp.org); fertility transition, with a particular focus on Africa; and the interface between sociology, official statistics and demography.

 

I have presented papers at four IUSSP General Population Conferences (2001; 2005; 2009; 2013). More recently, I have worked extensively in the area of real-tracking mortality from Covid; and improving CRVS systems, particularly in South-East Asia.

 

Publications:

Moultrie TA, RE Dorrington, AG Hill, KH Hill, IM Timæus and B Zaba. 2013. Tools for Demographic Estimation. Paris: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. demographicestimation.iussp.org


Moultrie TA, TS Sayi and IM Timæus. 2012. "Birth intervals, postponement, and fertility decline in Africa: A new type of transition?", Population Studies 66(3):241-258. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2012.701660

 

Timæus IM and TA Moultrie. 2008. "On postponement and birth intervals", Population and Development Review 34(3):483-510. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2008.00233.x

 

Timæus, Ian M. and Tom A. Moultrie. 2020. "Pathways to low fertility: 50 years of limitation, curtailment, and postponement of childbearing", Demography 57(1):267-296. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00848-5.

 

Bradshaw, Debbie, Rob E Dorrington, Ria Laubscher, Tom A Moultrie et al. 2021. "Tracking mortality in near to real time provides essential information about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa in 2020", South African Medical Journal 111(8):732-740. https://dx.doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2021.v111i8.15809.

 
Honorary or professional positions and awards:
 
Editor, Population Studies (2012-)

Past Editor: Southern African Journal of Demography (2004-2009)

IUSSP Council Member for Africa, 2014-2017

International Advisory Board, LSHTM-UNFPA-IUSSP project on Distance Learning in Demography (2011-)
Research grants:
UNFPA-IUSSP Project on Demographic Estimation - PI

Various grants from INDEPTH Network; UK Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC); South African National Research Foundation; Hewlett Foundation