Interactive & Teaching
The network and its partners offer a broad range of interactive tools, educational materials, videos and software, which explain major demographic trends and can be used in school classrooms, universities and other educational facilities.
13/05/2019
Over the last 50 years, family planning has created opportunities for women and girls to increase schooling, labor force participation, occupational choice, and wages, so they can build better lives for themselves and their families. For these reasons, family planning has often been called the key to sustainable development. Yet, more than 214 million women still have an unmet need for family planning—they want to limit or space their pregnancies but are not using contraceptives. [...]
26/03/2019
This short video will introduce you to Population Europe and our network.
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10/09/2018
SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, is a multidisciplinary longitudinal survey for the study of the social, economic and health situation of people aged 50 and older in Europe. In 2004, SHARE started collecting representative data of the generation 50+ in eleven countries. Today, data from 27 European countries and Israel is available. SHARE has collected data from 140,000 respondents in 380,000 interviews.
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28/08/2018
The world population is growing older. With continued declines in fertility and mortality, the global population's shift toward an older age structure, known as population aging, will accelerate. Older adults' (ages 65+) share of the global population increased from 5 percent in 1960 to 9 percent in 2018 and is projected to rise to 16 percent by 2050, with the segment ages 85 and older growing the fastest. Children's (ages 0 to 14) share is falling, from 37 percent in 1960, to 26 percent in 2018, with a projected decrease to 21 percent by 2050. [...]
05/07/2018
What insights into the changes in the lives of individuals and families does a social science research infrastructure like the GGP offer researchers, policy makers and civil society?
This animated introduction to the Generations & Gender Programme (GGP) explains the purpose, function and value of a social science research infrastructure to the domains of public policy and research.
To access the GGP open source datasets register as a GGP User here. [...]
03/07/2018
The European Demographic Data Sheet 2018 reviews, explores and visualises recent population trends in 45 European countries. The data sheet also provides a snapshot of the current research at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital on changes in education composition and labour force, measuring economic dependency, assessing healthy life years, and estimating fertility.
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28/05/2018
Figuring out population change, videos about fundamental demographic issues
December 2017
Videos: Oriscus production
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24/05/2018
Joining Generations & Gender Programme 2020 – Introductory Webinar
Wednesday, 16 May 2018
15:00 - 16:00 (Berlin Time)
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22/05/2018
Joining Generations & Gender Programme 2020 – Introductory Webinar
with Anne Gauthier (GGP Director), Tom Emery (GGP Project Manager) & Deirdre Casella (GGP International Liaison Officer)
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