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March 21, 2013

Lifetime fertility on the rise

New MPIDR projections: In many developed countries the trend of falling cohort birth rates reverses. Women born in the 1970s will have more babies than previous cohorts.

March 4, 2013

End of world population growth is improbable

The global population may not stabilize at a level of 10 billion, as projections by the United Nations suggest.

November 15, 2012

Nonmarital Births on the Rise

MPIDR researchers provide for the first time data on regional variation in the rise of non-marital fertility across 497 European regions. The analysis covers the last 50 years.

October 16, 2012

The evolution of mortality

During the last 100 years there has been a far greater drop in human mortality than there was when humans evolved from wild chimpanzees. Scientists at the MPIDR have now published striking evidence of how unusual this recent reduction is.

September 6, 2012

Old Mother, sick child?

Previously existing ideas on how advanced maternal age affects adult health of children have to be reconsidered find MPIDR researchers.

June 25, 2012

You are where you e-mail

MPIDR scientist discovers unseen global migration in e-mail flows and makes U.S. emigration visible for the first time.

September 2, 2011

1.6 Children per Woman

MPIDR scientists for the first time present corrected birth rates for Germany that are considerably higher than the official figures.

August 18, 2011

Boys reach sexual maturity younger and younger

The time period during which young people are sexually mature but socially not yet considered adults is expanding.

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