🧑‍🏫 Join us next week on 19 March for our #CPCCGWebinar with Julia Behrman of @northwesternu.

Julia will discuss mapping the strength and character of the norm to have #children, drawing on evidence from the #US.

Join us online - register at: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/event_calendar/956/CPC_CG_Webinar__Julia_Behrman

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📈 Nationally, the proportion of households led by over-65s will increase from 29% to 35% by 2047, according to Telegraph analysis.

CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham and CG Co-Director Professor Melinda Mills discuss the complexities of the UK's #ageingpopulation ⬇️ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/28/east-devon-old-age-capital-britain/

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🗞️ Head to section 12 of the new #ChangingPopulations to read about just some of our researchers' achievements and awards over the last six months in our Researcher Spotlight 🔦🔦

Congratulations to all 👏 👏

https://sway.cloud.microsoft/urKHaLPBnmc5tC1p?ref=Link

#population #socialscience #demography #interdisciplinary #migration #ResponsibleAI #AIinnovation #Horizon2020 #eucommission #economics #immigration #migrants #populationchange #socialsciences #modelling #forecasting

America’s older population is growing as its younger cohort shrinks – Axios

Politics & Policy

America’s older population is growing as its younger cohort shrinks

By Alex Fitzpatrick

Data: U.S. Census Bureau; Map: Kavya Beheraj/Axios

America’s older population is growing while its younger cohort is shrinking, per new census data.

Why it matters: This demographic trend presents big policy and economic challenges — more older Americans means we’ll need more care workers, for instance.

Driving the news: The U.S. population aged 65 and up grew by 13% between 2020 and 2024, the Census Bureau says, while the number of those under 18 fell by 1.7%.

The U.S. median age hit a new record high of 39.1 in 2024, up from 38.5 in 2020.

The big picture: These latest figures continue a longstanding trend of an aging America.

The share of the U.S. population 65 and up increased from 12.4% in 2004 to 18% in 2024, the bureau notes, while the share of children fell from 25% to 21.5%.

Zoom in: The number of people 65 and up increased in all states between 2020 and 2024, while that of people under 18 increased in only a handful, including Texas and Florida.

Stunning stat: There are now 11 states with more older adults than children, up from only three in 2020.

They include Maine, Vermont, Florida, Delaware, Hawai’i, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia.

What they’re saying: The gap between children and older adults “is narrowing as baby boomers continue to age into their retirement years,” Lauren Bowers, chief of the Census Bureau’s Population Estimates Branch, said in a statement accompanying the new data.

“In fact, the number of states and counties where older adults outnumber children is on the rise, especially in sparsely populated areas.”

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#usa #israel : #religion / #judaism / #populationchange / #report

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/06/09/jewish-population-change/

In #RuralAmerica population decline is associated with increases in income inequality, while population growth is marginally associated with decreases in inequality.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34744225

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