Stomach cancer remains an important public health concern in the United States. Through investigation of known risk factors, this study aims to map statistically significant geographical differences in mortality indicators for stomach cancer. County-...
Lifespan varies among individuals, and this variation arises both from heterogeneity (e.g., in sex or race) and from unavoidable individual stochasticity. Treating a heterogeneous population as a mixture of groups, each experiencing different rates,...
Medicaid insurance plans provide free or low-cost healthcare coverage to individuals with limited incomes and serve vulnerable populations that experience health inequities. Community health engagement programs provide Medicaid recipients with opport...
Accurate ethnicity data is essential for understanding the size and needs of communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. Potential misclassification of Fijian and Fijian Indian ethnicity has been identified in census and administrative collections, affectin...
Filipino immigrants play a central role in Canada’s essential workforce, particularly in health care, caregiving, and service sectors. This paper examines how their labour market outcomes have changed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, f...
The shrinking of a city evokes an image that the amount of the main urban components, such as public facilities, infrastructure, and built-up areas, also shrinks. However, in reality, even in so-called shrinking cities with declining population, phys...
Countries face interconnected policy challenges: population aging, fertility change, migration, urbanization, labor transitions, food and water security, climate risk, health-system demand, school planning, housing pressure, consumption planning, and...
Research on age segregation, defined as the spatial separation between older adults (65+) and younger populations, has lagged behind demographic shifts in the United States (US). Existing studies are often outdated, cross-sectional, and narrowly focu...
This paper examines how place organizes life course trajectories and shapes population processes. It does so by structuring cumulative and unequal exposure to relationships, institutions, and opportunities over time. These spatially patterned exposur...
The Cambodian genocide occurred between April 1975 and January 1979. Over one-third of Cambodia’s population perished, and many survivors suffer physical and mental health consequences. This study examines lasting influences of the Cambodian ge...
Understanding the impact of neighborhood-level factors on stroke prevalence is crucial for addressing existing disparities. However, there is a distinct lack of ecological studies at the census tract level that investigate the social determinants of...
We examine relationships across two focal variables, being an immigrant and experiencing racial discrimination (an adverse childhood experience, or ACE), and the outcome of a mental or emotional health condition for adolescent children in the U.S. Us...
Most demographic studies of fertility use data from surveys of women, not men. These studies have shown that, in the U.S., nonmarital births are more common among women from lower rather than higher socioeconomic (SES) backgrounds and higher among Bl...
This study adheres to a logistic regression modeling protocol originally developed for long-range intelligence analyses and employs data from UN demographic estimates (the 2024 revision) to generate a set of statistical functions that suggest a moder...
The COVID-19 pandemic introduced an additional major stressor for families in the Caribbean, a region already shaped by environmental risk and socioeconomic vulnerability. This study examined changes in family resilience across pandemic phases among...
Indigenous Kichwa women in the Ecuadorian Amazon experience disproportionately high levels of obstetric violence, yet their experiences remain largely absent from national demographic data. This study aims to measure the prevalence and forms of obste...
Italy’s current migrant integration policies show limited effectiveness in fostering genuine social inclusion, particularly for migrant women who face compounded, intersectional discrimination. Although Italy has adopted international framework...
As Populations completes its inaugural volume, we pause to reflect on what has been achieved during the journal’s formative year and anticipate the intellectual directions that will shape its next phase [...]
Infertility affects 10–30% of couples globally, with significant psychological and social impacts in sub-Saharan Africa, where fertility is closely tied to identity and social status. To explore how couples’ understanding of infertility c...
China has experienced a population decline since 2022, and its total fertility rate has dropped to about 1.0 in 2025. This is despite the lifting of the one-child policy in 2015 and the pivot to the two-child policy and three-child policy in, respect...
Recent policy reports and state briefs continue to highlight the trend of out-migration from California. This outflow has been pronounced over the last three years, revealing a substantial net loss (i.e., net migration) of approximately 740,000 resid...
Many states around the world create an unprotected class of migrants by legally categorizing them as “unauthorized”. Yet, we have a limited understanding of the state of knowledge that has resulted from this empirical phenomenon, particul...
This review examines how demographic knowledge is framed and reimagined within a Scottish widening access higher education programme. Drawing on my positionality as a former international student and widening access graduate, alongside over 15 years...
Despite global progress toward gender parity in education, Ghanaian girls continue to face systemic barriers rooted in entrenched parental gender norms. This paper explores how parental gender norm beliefs and attitudes perpetuate disparities among s...
This paper evaluates the Enhancing Mobile Populations’ Access to HIV and AIDS Services, Information and Support (EMPHASIS) programme implemented by CARE International across Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. Using individual-level data, we estimate...
This article examines European policies blocking migration. It outlines a theory of borders and bordering that conceptualizes both as being far more complex and consequential than the mere regulation of conventional national frontiers. Although due a...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health conditions in middle and late adulthood, contributing substantially to morbidity, mortality, and reduced quality of life. However, limited research has examined the mechanisms linking genetic pred...
Mortality studies comparing married men to never-married or formerly married men have consistently found that married men have a noticeable mortality advantage. This paper takes a novel perspective—examining mortality outcomes from the perspect...
Providing culturally responsive, trauma-informed afterschool programming is a promising intervention to promote the adjustment, educational achievement, and well-being of newly arrived refugee and immigrant children. Connecting Communities and Multil...
Lifetime reproductive output (LRO), also called lifetime reproductive success (LRS) is often described by its mean (total fertility rate or net reproductive rate), but it is in fact highly variable among individuals and often positively skewed. Sever...
Past studies of urbanization in the United States have found that college-educated (power) couples migrate to metropolitan areas at higher rates than both educated single persons and other couples with less education. A common explanation is that pow...
The article addresses the question of the relative importance of human population size and growth in relation to the environmental problems of planetary heating and biodiversity loss in the current, Anthropocene era. To what extent could policies to...
Understanding the reintegration of returning rural migrants in China is crucial due to the large scale of return migration and its associated challenges. While existing research has largely focused on economic reintegration, this study broadens the s...
Approximately 10% of the US Black diaspora were born either in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) or Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), projected to account for a third of the Black US diaspora by 2060. Yet, details on foreign-born Black women’s labo...
Accurate population counts and the identification of granularity within aggregated groups are essential for informing funding formulas and health policies, an issue of global significance. Relying solely on aggregated ethnicity-based population count...
Partner selection is a complex process shaped by structural, social, and personal factors. For refugees and forced migrants, displacement and adaptation add further challenges, with families—even from far away—playing a crucial role in sh...
Although the relationship between grandparent and grandchild is often unique due to the supportive and foundational roles grandparents can have in the lives of young or youthful grandchildren, the extent of grandparent–grandchild coresidence gl...
Despite ongoing efforts to reduce maternal mortality in Nigeria, the uptake of skilled birth attendance remains persistently low, especially in rural areas. While structural and socio–demographic barriers have been widely studied, less attentio...
This study predicts how sociodemographic trends—smaller family sizes, increased longevity, and marital patterns—could affect family care for people with dementia through 2060. By coupling dementia information from the Health and Retiremen...
The accelerated growth of older adults (the over-65s) in Italy fits within the context of the complex, hybrid nature of the pension system and the welfare benefits financed by tax revenues, which often overlap. As a result, older adults are experienc...
Although other studies have utilized demographic variables to characterize pet owners, this study incorporates a demographic framework that considers different family structures—couples and singles, with or without children—to better unde...
Ageing in place is the ability to remain in one’s community, where living conditions foster a sense of attachment that enhances holistic well-being. To facilitate this, both the built and social environments within which the home is nested must...
The COVID-19 pandemic has widened the gap in mortality between different population groups. While socioeconomic status has been shown to be an important determinant of mortality, the relationship between migration status and mortality risk remains un...
I rely on the key concepts of diffusion and percolation to characterize the sequential but overlapping phases of the spread of infection through entire populations during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from Los Angeles County demonstra...
This study uses data from the 2006–2012 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) genetic sample (N = 11,667) to explore the “immigrant health paradox” from a novel perspective by examining the nativity differences in genetic predisposition...
For the United States, detailed estimates of the number of resident migrants and the rates of migrant arrival are valuable for understanding population dynamics and for determining the impact of economic and political changes that influence migration...
With great excitement and pride, I introduce the inaugural issue of Populations, a new research journal dedicated to advancing our understanding of population dynamics and its interactions with socio-economic, political, and environmental processes [...
Population research is an evergreen topic of interest for governments across the world and accurate measurement of the demographic, environmental, and economic variables associated with a region’s population is invaluable in terms of informing...
