According to the United Nations, the world’s population reached 8 billion people on 15 November 2022. What are the implications of adding one billion people into the world in just twelve years?

Population and Development Review welcomes three new editorial committee members in 2022: Ridhi Kashyap, Sanyu A. Mojola, and Jennifer Van Hook.

Human sexuality, independent of behaviors directly related to fertility outcomes, is now a recognized topic in population studies and an object of survey research. 

The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the enormously detailed quadrennial literature review of climate research that is the Panel’s principal output, is at an advanced stage of preparation, with the final Synthesis Report scheduled to be issued in September 2022. 

The Population Council invites applications for the position of Editor(s), Studies in Family Planning (SFP). Individual applications as well as applications for Co-Editors will be considered.  

Population and Development Review, a journal of the Population Council, seeks abstracts (250–400 words) and extended abstracts (2–4 pages) for potential contributions to Population Challenges in the 21st Century: Looking Backward, Looking Forward, a special issue to mark the 50th anniversary of the journal.

A new study, “Global and National Declines in Life Expectancy: An End-of-2021 Assessment,” reports on changes in life expectancies around the world. It is authored by Patrick Heuveline, professor of sociology and associate director of the California Center for Population Research at UCLA, and published in Population and Development Review, a journal of the Population Council.

This is an exciting time for demography. Many of the pressing public issues at the forefront of the public’s imagination are, at their core, demographic ones. 

Studies in Family Planning is pleased to announce three new Editorial Committee members: Rajib Acharya, Mónica L. Caudillo, and Sara Yeatman. 

The Population Council is pleased to announce Raya Muttarak and Joshua Wilde as new Editors of Population and Development Review (PDR).