In France, people no longer find their first life partner as they did in the 1960s. Public dances and the neighbourhood are now much less frequent meeting places, while parties with friends (18%), the place of study 15%), public places (15%) and nightclubs and discotheques (11%) have grown in...

En France, on ne rencontre plus son premier conjoint comme dans les années 1960. Le bal et le voisinage ont fortement décliné, cependant que les soirées entre amis (18 %), les études (15 %), les lieux publics (15 %) et les boîtes et discothèques (11 %) sont devenus les cadres...

Over the last decade, a growing body of theoretical and empirical research has attempted to uncover the mechanisms behind return migration, as well as theconsequences for the migrant and her immediate personal network (household, community), the destination and the origin countries. This article...

In most developed countries, fertility has declined in response to the economic crisis. France appears to be anexception, but without the crisis, the total fertility rate,which had been increasing for several years, would have continued its upward trend and exceeded 2 children per woman. Trends...

Every other year, Population and Societies publishes a special issue called The population of the world, presenting an overall picture of the situation across the globe. There are slightly more than 7 billion humans on the planet in 2013. The world population has risen seven-fold over the last...

The value placed on slimness varies between countries, and may be greater for one or other sex. Four groups of countries emerge: a set of mainly European countries, including France, where slimness is more highly valued for women than for men; countries such as Uruguay where the preference is...

La valorisation de la minceur est plus ou moins forte selon les pays, et peut s'imposer davantage à l'un ou l'autre sexe. On peut distinguer quatre groupes de pays : ceux majoritairement européens telle la France, où la pression de la minceur est plus forte sur les femmes que sur les hommes....

D'après l'enquête Érfi de 2005, près d'un enfant mineur de parents séparés sur dix ne voit jamais son père. Plus l'enfant est jeune au moment de la séparation des parents, moins il fréquente son père par la suite. La proportion d'enfants ne voyant plus leur père est plus élevée...

Our ideas about population have varied continuously over the centuries, as illustrated in the vocabulary changes detected by Ngram Viewer in the vast corpus of books digitized by Google. For example, the French word démographie, first coined in 1855, did not take off until after the Great War,...

Nos idées sur la population n'ont cessé de varier au fil des siècles. En témoigne l'évolution du vocabulaire des ouvrages numérisés en masse par Google, qu'on peut désormais sonder avec Ngram Viewer. Ainsi, « démographie », créé en 1855, ne prend son essor qu'après la Grande...