Williamson, Jeffrey G.; Yousef, Tarik M.: Demographic transitions and economic performance in the Middle East and North Africa. - S. 16-36 Rashad, Hoda; Khadr, Zeinab: New challenges in the demography of the Arab region. - S. 37-61 Ali, Ali A.; Elbadawi, Ibrahim A.: Poverty in the Arab world: the...

We project the religious composition of the United States to 2043, considering fertility differences, migration, intergenerational religious transmission and conversion by 11 ethnoreligious groups. If fertility and migration trends continue, Hispanic Catholics will experience rapid growth,...

Religion and religiosity are important identity markers, and changes in a country's religious composition may affect its culture, value orientations and policies. In recent decades the Protestants in both the US and Canada have lost their absolute population majority. In the present study we...

Projecting the religious composition of the population is relevant for several reasons. It is a key characteristic influencing several aspects of individual behaviour, including marriage and childbearing patterns. The religious composition is also a driver of social cohesion and increased...

This paper examines levels of educational attainment in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam for the period 1970-2030 through the reconstruction and projection of levels of educational attainment. While the study of the past shows that the determination to invest in...

This paper documents the rationale, the data and the methodology for reconstructing the population of 185 countries by levels of educational attainment for the period 1950–2015, by age and sex. The reconstruction uses four main input types for each country: (1) The most recent and reliable...

Religious affiliation is nowadays getting plenty of attention in Austria, in the public sphere with increased presence in the news and in the policy discourse. The aim of this study is to estimate the religious composition of the population of Vorarlberg in 2018, taking advantage of available...

The publication presents the results of the research project "Religious Denominations in Vienna & Austria: Baseline study for 2016 - Scenarios until 2046" conducted by the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The aim of this study project was twofold: Firstly, to...