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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

We study the structure and dynamics of populations and explore issues of political relevance, such as aging, fertility, and the redistribution of work over the life course, as well as digitization and the use of new data sources for the estimation of migration flows.

New Faces at the MPIDR | October 16, 2026

Welcome, Becky Arnold!

The Department of Digital and Computational Demography welcomes Becky Arnold as a new team member. She will be working with Emilio Zagheni on the Horizon Europe project LIFe. Becky comes with a wide research span that includes astrophysics, epidemiology, regional development, and demography. She is particularly interested in policy-relevant research and its potential to inform evidence-based decision-making. More

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Preparatory courses at the MPIDR

European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD)

The European Doctoral School of Demography is an eleven-month sponsored program that is offered every year aiming to provide students with an appropriate high-level education in demography to pursue their doctoral studies. Students will acquire a solid knowledge base on the causes and consequences of demographic change, ... More

Call for Research Contributions

Rethinking Fertility Relationally

Recommended Readings | October 14, 2026

Different Routes into a First Partnership: How women with migration histories enter cohabitation and marriage in Finland

Introduction to our research groups

Family Demography in Sub-Saharan Africa

Family | October 07, 2026

Parenthood with Multiple Partners

A new study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) reveals that gender and social background influence the complexity of families in different ways throughout people's lives. Even in highly gender-equal Nordic countries, social inequalities in family formation persist. More

Selected Publications

Jasilionis, D.; van Raalte, A. A.; Klüsener, S.; Grigoriev, P.:

The underwhelming German life expectancy European Journal of Epidemiology 38:8, 839–850. (2023)

Micheletti, C.; Villavicencio, F.:

On the relationship between life expectancy, modal age at death, and the threshold age of the life table entropy Demographic Research 51:24, 763–788. (2024)

More Publications

Call for Papers

Special Collection | Demographic Research | Kinship Demography: Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities

New Issue 3/2026 available | October 06, 2026

The Quarterly German Newsletter

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Postdoc/Research Scientist in the Kinship Inequalities Research Group
University of Hong Kong – Max Planck PhD Studentship in Population Studies
Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program More

A peer-reviewed, open-access journal of population sciences

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Doctoral Program

International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science

News | September 30, 2026

New Horizon Europe Project LIFe Traces Inequalities Across Lives and Generations

How much do the circumstances of your birth shape where you end up as an adult? The project LIFe (Intergenerational Fairness: A Life-Course Approach) brings together research and policy-analysis institutions across Europe to examine how advantages and disadvantages build up over entire lifetimes and across generations. MPIDR’s Department of Digital and Computational Demography will take a leading role in modelling demographic and health developments. More

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world. It's part of the Max Planck Society, the internationally renowned German research society.

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