Population and demographics
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What a life table does with death rates to produce life expectancy
How each country draws the line between urban and rural — and why those shares cannot be compared
Reading a population pyramid: what a wide base or a mid-life bulge really means
Why the total fertility rate and the crude birth rate tell different stories
Why population projections come in scenarios and what the gap between them means
Why regional population figures break down when district boundaries keep being redrawn
Why period fertility rates can fall when no woman is actually having fewer children
Why two countries can disagree on how many people live inside their borders
When is a sample survey good enough instead of a full census
Why death rates have to be age-standardized before you compare two countries
Diversity lists impose a taxonomy whether they admit it or not: which groups get counted as groups
Longitudinal studies are the most valuable works about society and the hardest to keep funded
Does the demographic transition still explain fertility decline in countries that never industrialized
What changes in a country once its population starts shrinking
Who counts as a resident: de jure vs de facto counting and the people in between
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