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Breast cancer in women over 60 affects life expectancy in Sweden between 1994 and 2016
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Covid-19 Deaths Worldwide: Taken Together, People Under 75 Account for Most of the Years of Life Lost
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Global Comparison: How Many Mothers Have Lost a Child
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Medical professionals had a lower life expectancy than scholars in other disciplines
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Simultaneous Care Time Demands are Higher for Those in the Global South
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COVID-19: Period Life Expectancy Drops Significantly due to Pandemic
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Science of Science: Is Knowledge Produced in the Global North Perceived as More Generalizable?
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LinkedIn Data Shed Light on the Openness to Migrate Internationally for a Job
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COVID-19: Life Expectancy Mostly Continued to Decline in 2021
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Schweden: Große Ungleichheit bei lebenslanger Rente

Perceived Fairness
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Perceived Fairness
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Migration of Academics Worldwide: Female Researchers Are Less Mobile
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Why has the Stillbirth Rate in Germany been Rising since 2009?
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Reliably estimate the number of people who are infected with Covid-19
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Young but chronically diseased: one reason why the shape of Covid-19 pandemic may be different in countries in the Global South
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How much does Life Expectancy differ between Regions?
The higher the values in the graphics, the more life expectancy differs between subnational regions. Related News

Parental Wellbeing
Especially in their leisure time during activities with their children, parents feel more sense in life than adults who are not raising children. Related Press Release

Men and women adjust their health behavior after shock events
At the beginning of a disease, men are more likely to overlook symptoms and go to the doctor less often than women. After treatment in a hospital, however, the behavior of men and women is similar. Related Press Release

Crude death rates per week compared internationally
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Men die too early
Alcohol-related mortality for men 20 to 64 years old across the combined territory of Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, and European Russia. related news

Lower Pension, shorter Life
The poor lag farther and farther behind when it comes to life expectancy. Related press release

hospitalization and educational attainment
Higher educated individuals spend less time in hospital. But this link is no longer that clear at higher ages.

Share of nonmarital first birth to cohabiting couples
Large variations in Europe - The geographic location impacts the decision whether to marry before having a first child. Related news

Religiosity, economic autonomy of women and nonmarital birth
The share of nonmarital first births is lower in countries with high levels of religiosity and where women have a weaker position in the labor market. Related news

Birth rates of men and women in Germany
Because there are more potential fathers than mothers, the birth rate of men is around five to 10 percent lower than the birth rate of women. Related news

East German Women to take the lead in lung cancer death rates
Due to a silent but dramatic increase in the number of young East German women smoking after reunification, their death rates are forecasted to exceed those in the West soon. Related press release

Lifespans are increasing and becoming more similar
While life expectancy of US women rose by almost 19 years between 1933 and 2014, the variance in the distribution of deaths over age shrank by ten years. Related press release

Development of life expectancy of women in countries with highest life expectancies
This figure shows how the life expectancy of women at age 65 has developed in the countries that have achieved the highest life expectancy values in the world. Related news

Why men feel healthier and women live longer
A study in Moscow provides possible explanations for the paradoxical gender differences in health. Related news

Families unmarried
The percentage of non-marital births in 2007:: In many parts of Northern and Western Europe, there are already more births out of wedlock than births within marriage. Related news

highly educated and married people die rarely from cardiovascular diseases
The successful treatment of cardiovascular diseases is the main cause for the increase in life expectancy. Related news

Is there a guide to long life?
Life expectancy of the vanguards (high education level, married) has increased more than the life expectancy of the rest of the population (others). Related news

Life expectancy and its rise in 396 German districts
The east-west divide in the life expectancy of German women is being replaced by a patchwork quilt. Related press release

The birth of the third child doesn´t make parents happier
Whereas satisfaction levels among parents in Germany improve at the birth of the first and second child, they decline sharply with the birth of the third child. Related news

Gender-specific differences in mortality
Mortality varies considerably between the sexes and between different countries. Related news

Cohort fertility forecast - continental Europe
In many developed countries the trend of falling cohort birth rates reverses. This is the result of new projections performed by the MPIDR for 37 developed countries. Related press release

Cohort fertility forecast - nordic and baltic countries
In many developed countries the trend of falling cohort birth rates reverses. This is the result of new projections performed by the MPIDR for 37 developed countries. Related press release

Cohort fertility forecast - East Asia
In many developed countries the trend of falling cohort birth rates reverses. This is the result of new projections performed by the MPIDR for 37 developed countries. Related press release

Advanced maternal age not harmful for adult children
Adult children’s index of diagnosed conditions seems to rise steeply with maternal age. Adjusted for mother’s education and the age at which the child lost the mother, the curve becomes much flatter Related press release

1.6 Children per Woman
MPIDR scientists have succeeded in separating out the so-called “tempo effect” of aging mothers from the birth rates. They anticipate a reversal in the trend in German childbearing behavior. Related press release

Birth behavior of U.S.-American women with university degrees
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Historically High Excess Mortality
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Case Fatality Rate
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This is How the Gender Ratio Looks Like in Different Disciplines
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The Thirty Years´ War might have had affected life expectancy
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Covid-19: Life Expectancy Decreased in Most High-Income Countries
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Demographic Analysis Reveals the Long Shadow of Genocide in Guatemala
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Swedish Pensions: Large Gap in Lifetime Pension due to Inequality
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USA: Less Educated Spend Less Time in Retirement
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Perceived Fairness
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Migration of Scientists: Economic Development Does Not Necessarily Lead to Brain drain
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Migration of Academics Worldwide: Female Researchers Are Less Mobile but the Gender Gap has Shrunk
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Mortality in high income countries: Causes of death show more variation
The researchers used the so-called normalized Shannon entropy, which is a measure of how different one population’s cause of death distribution is from another. If everyone died of the same cause, entropy would be 0. If there was an equal chance of dying from all 19 major cause of death categories, entropy would be 1. Related Press Release

Health behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic: online survey provides insights
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Counterfactual life expectancy USA
The figure displays the results of a simulation that examines the size of the influence of each of the two causes of death. Related Press Release

Life Expectancy at Birth 2019: Hong Kong is the leader
On average, men and women in Hong Kong are now the oldest in the world.

Total Fertility Rate in Nordic countries
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Fertility rate is similiar in neighboring regions
The average number of children per woman born in European regions in 2010 Related Press Release

Retired grandfathers influence the family planning of their children
One year after grandfathers take early retirement, the probability that their children will have a second child increases by 17 percentage points. Related Press Release

Fertility Rate in different age cohorts
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Influence of education and income in mortality
This figure shows the mortality risk under the influencing factors income level and educational level for men and women in East and West Germany in 2013. Related press release

Later-borns choose less prestigious programs at university
First-borns are more likely to study more prestigious subjects at university such as medicine and engineering and can thus expect greater earnings. Related press release

Walking down the aisle before having a first child?
Progressive countries have a higher share of nonmarital births, however, highly educated women are more likely to have their first child within marriage. Related news

Trend toward delayed fatherhood
The average age of men at the birth of their children has increased markedly since 1995. Related news

Better prospects for small babies
The negative association between low birth weight and cognitive ability is declining. Related news

Less children per man than per woman
Birthrates for men in Germany made available for the first time. Men on average have less children then women and have them later in life. Related press release

Life expectancy: trends among the highly educated show the way
Over the last century, life expectancy rose on average by three months a year. However, this progress has been uneven across educational groups. Related news

Development of life expectancy of men in countries with highest life expectancies
This figure shows how the life expectancy of men at age 65 has developed in the countries that have achieved the highest life expectancy values in the world. Related news

From the Golden Age of Marriage to today
The development of non-marital birth from 1960 to 2010 in different parts of Europe. Related news

COMADRE: Uniform data for Biodemography
Population Matrix Models per Country: Geographic representation of animal demographic studies in COMADRE 1.0.0. Related news

Life expectancy of women in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Japan
Life expectancy of married and well-educated women in Nordic countries is higher than the life expectancy of Japanese women who are far ahead in the international comparison. Related news

When do migrants have children?
Migrants born in Turkey had their first children earlier and more frequently than women born to Turkish parents in Germany. Related press release

When new parents become unhappy, brothers and sisters become less likely
New parents’ drop in subjective well-being helps to explain why many remain with one child, even though they desire two. Related press release

Having children later makes parents happy
The satisfaction levels of parents depend on the point in time when they start a family. Related news

Economic crisis lowers birth rates
On average, if the unemployment rate rises, age specific birth rates drop for 28 European countries in every age group. Young people are most strongly affected. Related press release

Cohort fertility forecast - Germany
In many developed countries the trend of falling cohort birth rates reverses. This is the result of new projections performed by the MPIDR for 37 developed countries. Related press release

Cohort fertility forecast - eastern Europe
In many developed countries the trend of falling cohort birth rates reverses. This is the result of new projections performed by the MPIDR for 37 developed countries. Related press release

Cohort fertility forecast - english speaking countries
In many developed countries the trend of falling cohort birth rates reverses. This is the result of new projections performed by the MPIDR for 37 developed countries. Related press release

You are where you e-mail
By analyzing millions of emails from users of Yahoo! accounts the first consistent figure of those emigrating from the USA was made possible. Related press release

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