Weeks Population

Yesterday I was scheduled to be in Vienna presenting a paper on "Educational Level as a Key Predictor of Human Well-Being" at the ...

The recent passage of an incredibly repressive and regressive anti-abortion piece of legislation in Alabama has sparked outrage everywhere. ...

A few days ago, Carl Schmertmann tweeted a link to a paper in ResearchGate in which a Russian academic offered evidence that Jeanne Calment...

Thanks to both Justin Stoler and Debbie Fugate for linking me to a Christmas Day story from BBC News on the sex ratio at birth. I'm not ...

Last month I blogged about new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention showing that pregnancy related deaths in the...

CNN posted a very relevant demographic article a couple of days ago  comparing biological aging with chronological aging . The focus was on ...

I recently blogged about the upward trend in suicide in the U.S., which bucks the global trend of declines in suicides. Yesterday, the U.S....

This week's Economist has a very nice summary of the global trends in suicide (or "intentional self-harm" as it is known in t...

The New York Times today published an article that fortunately has gotten a lot of attention. It details the tragedies of women and their b...

The European "discovery" of the Americas was amazingly consequential in demographic terms. I discuss this in my text, of course, b...

Thanks to Professor Rubén Rumbaut for linking me to an incredibly interesting story about a new resource that shows the life expectancy in y...

Last week the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) issued its latest  State of Food Security and Nutrition in the Wo...

Over time I have regularly given shout-outs to the great work that Max Roser and his team at Oxford University do in assembling and present...

Today's Washington Post carries a very interesting story about a female Impressionist painter from the 19th century with whom I was not...

Thanks to Todd Gardner and others for pointing to a research article published this week in Science on the " Demography of Longevity P...

Yesterday I blogged about health disparities in the United States, referencing research by Jennifer Montez and Mark Hayward. The latter come...

I have blogged several times about the differences in health and life expectancy by state in the U.S. In a blog post about a year and half a...

Today I came across an op-ed by a physician in south Florida extolling the health virtues of a plant-based diet, and I couldn't help bu...

This week has witnessed two high-profile suicides, that of fashion designer Kate Spade , and of celebrity chef/world cultural explorer Antho...

One of the saddest commentaries about health care in the U.S. is that we pay more per person than any other country, but still wind up with ...