Demography is the study of events that shape the structure of human populations, such as births, age, deaths, fertility rates or income.

Applied demography has recently gained recognition as an emergent specialization among practicing demographers. We argue that applied demography is intrinsically distinct from basic demography because ...

Key structural forces that have put downward pressure on inflation, and wages in particular, are starting to move in the other direction.

As countries industrialize, their societies through several transitions. The demographic dividend is they payoff that changes the lives of people for the better.

In linking to this insightful Patrick Ruffini post about the irrelevance of polling in Democratic primaries this year, Ezra Klein says, "In this race, demography really has been destiny, and that ...

There’s much merit to the idea that “demography is destiny” (a phrase credited to Ben Wattenberg and Richard Scammon, co-authors of the 1970s book The Real Majority).