Demographics
Secret to a long life? More money for healthcare
Tuesday 03 December 2019 |
Laszlo Arato | EUrologus
In Western Europe and Scandinavia, people spend more on healthcare and live longer, while in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic States, less money is spent and life expectancy at birth is lower too. The EU average for healthcare spending is 9.9 percent of GDP. In Hungary it is 7.4 percent.
2019: escape from the Balkans
in depth
Monday 25 November 2019 |
Francesca Rolandi Christian Elia
| OBC Transeuropa
A growing phenomenon with worrying implications: the flight of workers, skilled or otherwise, from former Yugoslavia. A look at the data and political responses.
Is your region a brain gainer or drainer?
Thursday 20 June 2019 |
Newsworthy The battle for talent within the European Union is a story about both brain drain and gain. We have analyzed the migration patterns across the continent to create hundreds of reports going down to the regional level, paying special attention to highly skilled workers.
Child births: only 13 out of 328 regions in Europe above replacement level
Wednesday 11 December 2019 |
Newsworthy To keep a country’s population stable from one generation to the next, at least two children should be born per woman. But how many European regions pass that threshold? In this report we look closer at the fertility rates across Europe region by region.
Assisted reproductive technologies in Europe (ESHRE)
Friday 30 August 2019 |
Alternatives Economiques What is the current status with assisted reproductive technologies in the different European countries?
Population of European urban areas over the past 50 years
Saturday 11 May 2019 |
Alternatives Economiques How has the population of urban areas changed in 50 years?
Africapolis
Sunday 17 February 2019 |
Alternatives Economiques The Africapolis database is the first to map urbanization dynamics in Africa based on data available for 7,500 cities.
Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
Tuesday 11 December 2018 |
OBC Transeuropa The SHARE survey is the first European multidisciplinary survey on the health, retirement and economic situation of people aged 50 and over.
Regional population structures at a glance
Tuesday 04 September 2018 |
VoxEurop How is the European population structured according to its age for each subregion? A bunch of demographic scientists drew a map of Europe’s regional populations using an innovative approach of ternary colour coding.
Xenophobia in European cities
Tuesday 21 November 2017 |
Lorenzo Ferrari | OBC Transeuropa
On average, xenophobia is not rising in European cities - according to Eurobarometer. But there are exceptions and noteworthy counter-trends, especially in Southern Europe
