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🔔Francesco C. Billari recently gave a lecture in Vienna, which he described as "the city where demography has married human capital". In case you missed it, the recorded talk is now available online!👇

#demography #fertility

📢We updated Short-Term Fertility Fluctuations #STFF data series!
✔️Monthly births for 47 countries and areas
✔️Seasonally & calendar adjusted monthly births & TFRs for 32 countries

Interested in short-term fertility trends?😉👇
humanfertility.org/Data/STFF

#HFD includes the Short-Term Fertility Fluctuations #STFF data series on monthly birth trends👇

✅Based on official data sources
✅Well documented, harmonized, up-to-date data
✅Seasonally & calendar adjusted TFRs for selected countries
🌐 humanfertility.org/Data/STFF

#HFD provides standardised sets of #fertility data comparable across countries and time👇

✅Based on official vital statistics
✅Uniform methodology & thorough data documentation
✅Period and cohort fertility indicators
✅Live births & fertility rates by age & birth order
✅Fertility tables

💡Watch now: Francesco Billari's talk on “Demography and Hyperdiversity“ at the @oeaw.bsky.social (Karl Popper-Lecture)!
Francesco Billari introduced the concept of “hyperdiversity” – a concept that will shape future demographic thinking.
🔗 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzau...
#demography

OeAW-president Faßmann just mentioned @VID results showing that in Austria women take on average 416 days of parental leave, men only NINE! There is still room to increase…

Demographic change, and in particular the longevity revolution, is the mother of all revolutions.“
Great talk by Francesco Billari in the festive hall of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Looking 👀 forward to this 👇live today in Vienna!

Francesco Billari on #Demography and #Hyperdiversity

📅 23 February 2026, 17:00h
Karl Popper-Lecture at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Festive Hall

Further details will follow — stay tuned with @demographyvienna.bsky.social 🎧!

📢 Call for Papers!
We invite you to submit your research for the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demography and Human Capital", taking place from Dec 1-2, 2026 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna.
📆 Deadline: April 30, 2026
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-eve...
#demography

📢 Apply for the two-year Master Programme "Global Demography" at the University of Vienna!
The programme starts on 1 October 2026.
📅 Application period: 2 March to 7 April 2026
🔗 More information: demografie.univie.ac.at/studies/mast...
@univie.ac.at #demography

Yes! The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research @vypr.bsky.social is a peer reviewed, open-access journal

✅ no fee for authors and readers

Check our call for paper for the new special issue bsky.app/profile/vypr...

🚨Deadline for submission ➡️ 15 May 2026!

Well deserved, great job!

Congratulations!! You are an extraordinary nice group of scientists!

📢 Save the date for the next #WICColloquium!
Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz and Miguel Sanchez-Romero: "Reforming EU Pension Systems: Equity and Sustainability in Conflict".
📅 10 February 2026, 13:00-14:00h
📍 PSK Building MR04 (4th floor) and online
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/w...
#demography

Demografie und Hyperdiversität Francesco Billari nimmt bei einer Karl Popper-Lecture an der ÖAW die hyperdiverse Welt in den Blick und analysiert die komplexen Einflussfaktoren, die für die zunehmende Diversität von Bevölkerungen v...

📢 Register now!
Francesco C. Billari (Rector of Bocconi University, Milan): "Demography and Hyperdiversity".
📅 23 February 2026, 17:00h
📍 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Festive Hall
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/en/detail/ev...

Why do women live longer than men, but spend more time in poor health? A decomposition analysis of the gender gap in unhealthy life years across Europe - European Journal of Epidemiology This study tests the “longevity hypothesis,” which posits that women’s greater number of years spent in poor health is primarily a direct consequence of their longer survival. We analyse gender differ...

📖 New publication: "Why do women live longer than men, but spend more time in poor health? A decomposition analysis of the gender gap in unhealthy life years across Europe".
@mmuszynskas.bsky.social et al. test the “longevity hypothesis".
🔗 Read now: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#demography

📖 New publication: "Trends in time with children in European countries: Intensification and gender convergence"!
Caroline Berghammer and @melissamilkie.bsky.social review studies investigating childcare trends in European countries.
🔗 Read now: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o...
#demography

📢 Save the date for the next #WICColloquium!
Joshua R. Goldstein: "Population Momentum from Migration".
📅 8 January 2026, 11:00-12:00h
📍 PSK Building MR01 (3rd floor) and online
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/w...

Our call for papers is out! Submit until May 15 2026.

The European Parenting Leave Policies Dataset is part of the Skill-PAL project (Skill Loss during Parental Leave and its Role for Gender Disparities in Earnings), funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (DATA_2023-39_Skill-PAL).

📢 New dataset for researchers!
The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024.
🔗 eplp-dataset.org

📢 Einstein Center Population Diversity Tuesday Dialogues
Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz and Miguel Sánchez-Romero: "Old age security in Europe – fair and sustainable pension reforms for heterogeneous ageing".
📅 2 December 2025, 13:00-14:00h
📍 Online
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/4yw6m49y

Deadline is approaching!!!!

📌 Submit your contribution until 30 November 2025 for #REVES2026 📆 11–13 March 2026|Tokyo, Japan

🔗 www.reves2026.com

#demography
#LifeExpectancy

The demographic future that we do not know about The demographic future of the planet has rarely been as questioned as it is today. For much of the 20th century, the demographic transition theory provided a clear narrative: With modernization and de...

💡In @science.org, @anne-goujon.bsky.social explores the challenges of predicting our demographic future, given the uncertainties that shape it.
🔗 Read now: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oeaw.bsky.social @iiasa.ac.at #demography

👇Don‘t miss the Wittgenstein Centre Conference #WIC2025. Still possible to register for online participation!

We had a successful first day of #WIC2025 in the beautiful festive hall of the Austrian Academy of Sciences #OeAW

📢 Save the date for the next #WICColloquium!
Jonas Kolb from Statistics Austria: "Migration Survey 2025: Implementation, Experiences and Findings on Migration and Integration in Austria".
📅 13 November 2025, 11:00-12:00h
📍 PSK Building MR04 (4rd floor) and online
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/w...

📢 Job opening!
Join our Research Group on Fertility and Population Change as a Postdoctoral Researcher
⏰ Full-time (40h/week), 1-year position
🔗 Infos & application: oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/2bka2yo1

Postdoc (m/f/x) – Population Data and Projections OeAW - Discovering the futureAs a central non-university institution for science and research, the Austrian Academy of Sciences - OeAW has the task of "promoting science in every respect". F...

📢 Vienna Institute of Demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social is seeking a Postdoc Researcher in Population Data and Projections RG 📈 📊

I can't recommend enough working at VID, especially with Anne!

💯 friendly, supportive environment with world-class researchers.🤓
oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/km5kybrq

📢 Job opening!
Join our Research Group on Population Data and Projections as a Postdoctoral Researcher
⏰ Full-time (40h/week), 1-year position
🔗 Infos & application: oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/km5kybrq