Demographic research and news articles on the spread and impact of COVID-19
Events: Expert United Nations group meeting on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility.
Books and essays:
Demography Beyond the Foot. Jenny Trinitapoli, Population and Development Review , 1 Februrary 2021
Fiorenza Gamba, Marco Nardone, Toni Ricciardi, Sandro Cattacin (eds.). COVID 19 – Le regard des Sciences Sociales, Seismo, 2020. Open access downloadable PDF. This "flash book" (written in 3 months) includes twenty-seven contributions. It is available in French and will also be published in Italian (in July) and in German (in August).
Articles: Reduction in life expectancy in Brazil after COVID-19 (Nature Medicine) Can the world close the 9-year vaccination gap between high- and low-income countries? (COVID-19 Data and Innovation Centre)
How Demography Can Help to Better Understand the Pandemic (Population Europe)
COVID Data Twitter Takeover Series (Population Europe)
Reduction in the 2020 Life Expectancy in Brazil after COVID-19 (MedrXIV)
COVID-19 and the State of Global Mobility in 2020 (MPI, April 2021) Excess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes in the US, March 1, 2020, to January 2, 2021 (Jama Network, 2 April 2021)
Baby bust in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic? First results from the new STFF data series (Tomas Sobotka, Aiva Jasilioniene, Ainhoa Alustiza Galarza, Kryštof Zeman, Laszlo Nemeth, Dmitri Jdanov, PREPRINT in SocArXiv papers, Version 24 March 2021) France 2020: 68,000 excess deaths attributable to COVID-19 France 2020 : 68 000 décès supplémentaires imputables à l’épidémie de Covid-19 (Gilles Pison, France Meslé, Population and Societies. March 2021)
Vaccinating the oldest against COVID-19 saves both the most lives and most years of life COVID-19 deaths detected in a systematic post-mortem surveillance study in Africa | medRxiv
Understanding Women’s and Girls’ Vulnerabilities to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Gender Analysis and Data Dashboard of Low- and Lower-Middle Income Countries (Data 2x)
Report: COVID-19 Data and Data Sharing Agreements: The Potential of Sunset Clauses and Sunset Provisions (SDSN TReNDS and DataReady Limited on behalf of C4DC)
Suppression, Spikes, and Stigma: How COVID-19 Will Shape International Migration and Hostilities toward It (Center for Migration Studies)
Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries (Nature, 14 October 2020)
279,700 extra deaths in the US so far in this pandemic year (The Conversation, 14 October 2020)
Is India missing COVID-19 deaths? (The Lancet, 5 September 2020)
How many people has the coronavirus killed? (Nature, 1 September 2020)
Modelling COVID-19 mortality at the regional level in Italy (SocArXiv, 27 August 2020)
Population age structure only partially explains the large number of COVID-19 deaths at the oldest ages (Demographic Research, 21 August 2020)
Demographic perspectives on the mortality of COVID-19 and other epidemics (PNAS, 20 August 2020)
Up to 204,691 extra deaths in the US so far in this pandemic year (The Conversation, 13 August 2020)
Protect Adolescent Health in Pandemic Response (Family Planning 2020)
How Are Key Demographic Indicators Related to Covid-19 Reported in the United States? (Populuation Council) COVID-19 has “devastating” effect on women and girls (The Lancet, 1 August 2020)
COVID-19: Montréal parmi les villes les plus touchées en Occident (La Presse, 31 July 2020)
Covid-19 threatens access to abortions and contraceptives, experts warn (Guardian 23 July 2020)
Comparisons of all-cause mortality between European countries and regions: January to June 2020
Estimating the burden of COVID-19 on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: A population-level study (medRxiv, 16 July 2020. Preprint)
UNFPA Webinar: COVID-19 and People of African Descent Thursday 23 July 2020
After COVID-19, a future for the world's children? (The Lancet, 2 July 2020)
Intersecting household-level health and socio-economic vulnerabilities and the COVID-19 crisis: An analysis from the UK (Science Direct, 2 July 2020). Open access (currently in pre-print status). Exploring the young demographic profile of COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong: Evidence from migration and travel history data (PLOS ONE, 26 June 2020)
Population heterogeneity is a critical factor of the kinetics of the COVID-19 epidemics (MedRxiv, 25 June 2020)
Ethnic disparities in hospitalisation for COVID-19 in England: The role of socioeconomic factors, mental health, and inflammatory and pro-inflammatory factors in a community-based cohort study (Science Direct. 1st June 2020)
Behaviors and attitudes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from a cross-national Facebook Survey (Pre-print article, MedRxiv, 15 May 2020) Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world
Demographic Perspectives on Mortality of Covid-19 and Other Epidemics Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy in Madrid (Spain)
The Strength of Family Ties and COVID-19 (Contexts)
COVID-19: A New Challenge for Migration Policy (Migration Policy Practice, April-June 2020)
Policy Brief. Demography and the Coronavirus Pandemic (Population Europe, May 2020) View archived articles |