Thomas Spoorenberg

Population Affairs Officer
United Nations Population Division

thomas.spoorenberg@gmail.com

Field of Study: Demography, Environment, History, Population and Development
 
Specialization: Age and Sex Structure, Data Collection and Processing, Estimates and Projections, Fertility, Population and Development, Training, Documentation, Information
 
Regional focus: Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), Université de Genève, Demography, 2009
 
Working languages: French
English
 


Personal web page:
https://sites.google.com/site/thomasspoorenberg/
 
Professional Summary:

I am a demographer with 15+ years of international and technical experience in methods and standards to assess population data quality, demographic analysis, fertility change, population estimates and projections.

I have worked at the University of Geneva, the National University of Mongolia, the United Nations Population Division, and the United Nations Statistics Division.

 

I have presented papers at the last four IUSSP International Population Conferences;

Organized and chaired sessions "Recent fertility change: Quantum and tempo effects" and "Recent fertility change: Quantum and tempo effects. Further perspectives", XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference in Busan, August 2013;

Served on the programme committee and organized sessions "Projecting populations and demographic components" and "Projecting mortality", XXVIII IUSSP International Population Conference in Cape Town, November 2017.

 

Publications:

Spoorenberg, T. and H. Issaka Maga. 2018. "Fertility compression in Niger: A study of fertility development by parity (1977‒2011)", Demographic Research 39(24): 685‒700.

Spoorenberg T. 2017. "The onset of fertility transition in Central Asia", Population-E 72(3): 473-504.

Spoorenberg T. 2015. "Explaining recent fertility increase in Central Asia", Asian Population Studies 11(2): 115-133.

Spoorenberg T. 2014. "Reconciling discrepancies between registration-based and survey-based fertility estimates in Mongolia", Population Studies 38(3): 375-382.

Spoorenberg T. 2013. "Demographic changes in Myanmar since 1983: An examination of official data", Population and Development Review 39(2): 309-324.

Spoorenberg T. 2013. "An evaluation of the recent fertility changes in Afghanistan: A parity-specific analysis", Journal of Population Research 30(2): 133-149.

Spoorenberg T. & Schwekendiek D. 2012. "Demographic changes in North Korea: 1993-2008", Population and Development Review 38(1): 133-158.

 
Honorary or professional positions and awards:
 
Certificate of Appreciation, National University of Mongolia, 2008