A study on the impact of the Russian war in Ukraine on global food insecurity and migration cautions against making direct connections between food insecurity and international migration.
Today’s global youth population is key to the planet’s economic, social, political and environmental future. A JRC report on youth in external action finds that more efforts are needed to bridge the gap between youth and their participation in policymaking. The report also highlights gaps in international youth data.
Population ageing in Europe is driving an increased demand of long-term care services. A data story published in the Atlas of Demography shows that investments made so far to improve the availability, affordability and quality of long-term care services are not enough to meet the rising demand for age-related care services.
A new story of the Atlas of Demography illustrates the links between urbanisation and demographic trajectories: the proportion of people living in cities continues to grow rapidly in world regions and countries with high fertility rates, while urbanisation has slowed down in countries with declining birth rates.
Major demographic transitions are occurring across all world regions, at different paces and with different implications. Important trends are already visible and others are very likely to occur in the coming decades.
This study presents a unique spatial, multi-scalar and interdisciplinary approach to places. It aims at creating knowledge going beyond traditional operational classes of policy programmes, the urban/rural dichotomy, or administrative boundaries.
The second edition of the Atlas of Demography contains data on mortality, fertility and migration, population projections, new thematic stories, and a more user-friendly look. The Atlas of Demography is a living tool created by the Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD) to support the integration of demographic analysis into EU policymaking.
Two thematic stories in the Atlas of Demography focus on return migration as well as depopulation and brain drain. Depopulation and ageing are two intertwined factors affecting the future of Europe and particularly its rural areas where 30% of the total EU population live.
A thematic story in the Atlas of Demography shows the regional distribution of the Ukrainian diaspora in the EU. The mapping can function as an indication of where the displaced persons from Ukraine are likely to seek refuge.
A thematic story in the Atlas of Demography highlights the key contribution of migrant workers to the EU labour market to address skills shortages.
A thematic story of the Atlas of Demography looks at the demographics and unemployment levels of the EU’s outermost regions: French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Reunion Island and Saint-Martin (France), Azores and Madeira (Portugal), and the Canary Islands (Spain).
A new JRC Technical Report looks at the labour market participation trends for natives, EU-born migrants and non-EU born migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report confirms that the pandemic had an unequal impact on the employment rates among native and migrant workers.
A new JRC Technical Report published in the occasion of the International Day of Family Remittances explores how data on social connections between migrants and their contacts in their countries of origin could help explain the volume of remittance flows. In doing so, the report highlights an opportunity for the refinement of international statistics on remittances.
This report explores the association between climate anomalies, population dynamics, conflict and organised violence in Sudan and South Sudan, at the sub-national level and for the years 1989-2015. The analyses indicate a positive correlation of temperature and precipitation anomalies with conflict and organised violence at the local level.
This policy brief analyses territorial discrepancies and flows between types of settlements across several dimensions.
A report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) shows that when the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in 2020, the support for national governments initially rose in several European countries. Then, as the pandemic dragged on, people’s support for their governments started to decline. The decline was the sharpest among women, the self-employed and students.
A new report from the JRC supports the EU’s efforts to provide opportunities for young people around the world by presenting an overview of international data on youth, which can contribute to policymaking, monitoring and evaluation. The report shows that there is a growing body of international data on youth across a range of thematic areas.
This report aims at collecting novel and pressing policy issues that can be addressed by Computational Social Science (CSS), an emerging discipline that is rooted in the increasing availability of digital trace data and computational resources and seeks to apply data science methods to social sciences.
This report evaluates the fiscal effect that a better labour market integration of immigrants, a longer working life, and a broader labour market participation of women will have on EU Member States’ fiscal balance in the next three decades via a demographic microsimulation model.
