Fertility postponement is not a universal correlate of fertility decline
Worldwide, the path leading to delayed fertility is more complex than it may appear at first sight. Thomas Spoorenberg and Vegard Skirbekk offer a few keys to better interpret current ... Read more
The disproportionate burden of multi-morbidity at death in the US
Using multiple cause-of-death data from the United States, France, Italy, and Spain, Magali Barbieri and colleagues show that multi-morbidity at death contributes disproportionately to the US disadvantage in life expectancy ... Read more
Policy polarization is rewriting the American geography of longevity
The United States is becoming increasingly heterogeneous, a tendency also reflected in mortality trends. Perhaps unexpectedly, one of the driving forces behind these trends is state political orientation, as Anneliese ... Read more
The growing importance of donor eggs in assisted reproductive technologies in UK
Across high-income countries, women and couples are having children later than ever before, sometimes turning to assisted reproductive technologies (ART). At older ages, however, Ester Lazzari and Luzia Bruckamp say, ... Read more
Too much for the Dutch? How the Dutch baby boom affected kinship size in 2018
Dutch kinship network data, Vera de Bel argues, suggest that the Dutch baby boom has trickled down from one generation to the next, leading to larger numbers of aunts, uncles, ... Read more
The importance of educational expansion for longevity trends
Educational expansion has contributed to increasing the average lifespan and reducing its variability. As Jesús-Daniel Zazueta-Borboa, Ugofilippo Basellini and Fanny Janssen show for England & Wales, Finland, and Italy (Turin) ... Read more
Did you know?
In 2024, nearly 78 per cent of women aged 15–49 who wanted to avoid pregnancy used modern contraceptive methods. Despite this progress, more than 250 million women of reproductive age still do not use modern contraception.
Source: United Nations (2024), Estimates and Projections of Family Planning Indicators 2024. Available at: www.un.org/development/desa/pd/ data/family-planning-indicators.
Note: Oceania excludes Australia and New Zealand.
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