Counting the dead to help the living: Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Prabhat Jha, Head of Department, Oxford Univ,, Nuffield Professor of Population Health, on Wednesday, 18 March 2026, from 5:00–6:00 pm (UK time). Accessible online via link below just before 5:00 pm UK. vimeo.com/event/485875...

Counting the dead to help the living

Inaugural Lecture Presented by Prabhat Jha, Head of Department, Nuffield Professor of Population Health 18 March 2026

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📢 Event alert: UNICEF + UN IGME #UNSC57 Measuring Child Mortality & Overcoming Data Gaps 3 Mar | 1:15–2:30 EST | NY + Online: forms.office.com/e/BNZxS0dZ9  Practical approaches — mobile phone surveys + analytical tools — to collect child mortality data where CRVS is incomplete. #data #mortality

Are we letting demographic data become just another commodity? New paper by Edith Darin warns against the privatization of population stats. It’s time to treat these data as shared resource—a "common good"—not trade secret. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenData #PublicGood #DataGovernance

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Panic over falling fertility? 📉 A new Lancet editorial argues against coercive "quick fixes" to reverse declining birth rates. Instead of forcing a baby boom, the focus must shift to adapting global health systems for an ageing population. 🌍🏥 #GlobalHealth #Fertility #Demographics

Responding to declining global fertility rates

The levying of a 13% tax on condoms sold in China from Jan 1 is the country's latest policy aimed at reversing its falling total fertility rate (TFR; the average number of children a woman might expec...

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This morning Andy Tatem is speaking at the #HumanPlanetForum sharing our Global 2 new high-resolution population datasets - as the UN launches World Urbanization Prospects 2025. Watch live: https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/geo-human-planet-forum-2025-25-11-19

The 2025 revision introduces a major innovation: integrating geospatial methods via the harmonized Degree of Urbanization with national urban definitions. This dual approach ensures consistent global measurement and sharper insights into settlement patterns for sustainable development

Today, launching the World Urbanization Prospects 2025 with new UN estimates and projections of urbanization for 237 countries and areas of the world & 12,000+ cities with 50,000+ inhabitants in 2025. www.un.org/development/... - see also new online datasets and plots: population.un.org/wup/

Today, launching the World Urbanization Prospects 2025 with new UN estimates and projections of urbanization for 237 countries and areas of the world & 12,000+ cities with 50,000+ inhabitants in 2025. www.un.org/development/... - see also new online datasets and plots: population.un.org/wup/

UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub: Funding Opportunity: Mortality Estimation in Humanitarian Crises - Systems Innovation Partnership: To apply and/or share - Call for Expressions of Interest (lnkd.in/e7cv_VUS) - UKHIH Website (www.ukhih.org/news/now-ope...). ► EOI deadline: 11 August 2025, 5pm UTC

A recent interview with BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... and online TFR plots to browse more countries: population.un.org/wpp/graphs?l...

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?

How one graph shows the conservative side of the United Nations’ population estimates

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🚨Job Offer🚨 St Andrews–Max Planck PhD Studentship in Population, Health and Data Science 3.5-year St Andrews–Max Planck PhD studentship in Population, Health and Data Science. Deadline: June 11 @mpidr.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @imprs-phds.bsky.social www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

🚨 New paper: when researchers study epidemics, disasters, or conflicts but don't know how many people died, they often subtract pre and post population estimates or do a crude projection. Unfortunately, this almost never provides an accurate death toll 🧵 www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol5...

Reminder that the Formal Demography Working Group is meeting tomorrow! Sign up to receive Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

Monica Alexander@monjalexander.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey demographers! We're starting up the formal demography working group again! Next Friday 16 May at 11:30am ET @hggaddy.bsky.social will talk to us about challenges in estimating crisis mortality. Excited! Head to the website to sign up for Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

Topical cluster map of terms used in recently cancelled NIH grants. No surprises there I guess. Data by grant-watch.us and NYT for the flagged terms. Source code available here github.com/jschoeley/gr....

See also childmortality.org?indicator=SBR from UN-IGME for global and country data and internationally comparable estimates of stillbirth rates, neonatal and infant mortality available in an harmonized way. See also PDF reports and articles at the bottom of the home page.

Jonas Schöley@jschoeley.com · last yr.

Thank you for stating the issue of definitions so clearly. It gets very tricky with comparisons of stillbirths. If you want to get into that, maybe we could work together. @maxikniffka.bsky.social, others and me were able to do a harmonized analysis for Europe. academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

Where in the world are babies at the lowest risk of dying? Seems simple to answer, but countries count live births and infant deaths slightly differently. I look at the data in my latest article: ourworldindata.org/where-are-ba...

Where in the world are babies at the lowest risk of dying?

It’s difficult to compare countries because they don’t always measure infant mortality in the same way.

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🆕 study reveals global patterns of the migration of scientists shedding light on how researchers move both within and between countries. A team of researchers @mpidr.bsky.social found large disparities in the appeal of various countries and regions to scientists. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/migration...

We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word

2025 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) | IDMC - Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre www.internal-displacement.org/global-repor...

2025 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID)

The 2024 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) report presents the data and analysis behind the 75.9 million people living in internal displacement as of the end of 2023. It is the ninth editi...

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Some potential funding support for UK students who are assessed as having a Home/UK fee status and who meet the residency requirements as defined by ESRC Studentship regulations.

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine@lshtm.bsky.social · last yr.

Planning a career in demographic research?🌍 This studentship scheme may be of interest if you're looking to study MSc Demography & Health or MSc Reproductive and Sexual Health Research @‌LSHTM this September. Apply by 26 May 2025 👇 www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Using satellite imagery and advanced spatial modelling we are collaborating with #UNHCR to innovate mapping of displaced populations and unlocking the power of registration data. By WorldPop's Dr Sarchil Qader and Edith Darin, and others. #refugees #geodata #mapping medium.com/unhcr-innova...

Smarter refugee surveys for a more effective humanitarian response

UNHCR and WorldPop are innovating the mapping of displaced populations and unlocking the power of registration data

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📢 L’IR Progedo #recrute un ou une ingénieur·e d'études en production, traitement, analyse de données et enquêtes dans le cadre du projet ANR EXO-POPP, sous la direction de @sandrabree.bsky.social. 🔗 En savoir plus : exopopp.hypotheses.org 📌 Postulez avant le 1ᵉʳ juin 2025 : bit.ly/43hMBZV

East Asia demonstrates that financial incentives alone are insufficient to reverse declining birthrates. Deep-rooted issues like gender inequality in childcare, high living/education costs, and work-life imbalance need addressing for any profamily policy to succeed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

Opinion | MAGA Natalism Is Doomed to Fail

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[Recrutement] Je recrute, sur l'ANR Exo-POPP (Extraction Optique des entités nommées manuscrites pour les actes de mariage de la population de Paris (1880-1940) (exopopp.hypotheses.org) un ou une ingénieur·e pour 12 mois (localisation : Paris, @progedo.bsky.social ).

Ever wondered why some charts are more effective and engaging than others? I’ll be going through all the theory, evidence and principles behind compelling data storytelling from this Wednesday. Free to watch for anyone who is interested: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fundam...

Open call for Associate Editors at our journal!! To find out more about requirements and application procedures 👀 here www.demographic-research.org/files/Call_f...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

"The foundation will close its doors, permanently, on Dec. 31, 2045, at least several decades before originally intended. In the meantime, it will be spending down its endowment, as well as almost all of Gates’s remaining personal fortune." better than not www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...

The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation

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A Roadmap to Accessing Mobile Network Data for Statistics www.data4sdgs.org/sites/defaul...

Keep in mind that recent data carry over the momentum of past and recent efforts, but the global impact of the cut in international aid and development will affect, if not revert, some of these progresses.

Lucia Ruggiero@lruggiero.bsky.social · last yr.

The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown to 2030 for women's, children's, and adolescents' health: tracking progress on health and nutrition www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...