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China Population and Development Studies is an international platform for discourse on population phenomena and development issues.

  • Covers a broad range of topics from demography and population studies to social science methods and methodology.
  • Encourages interdisciplinary perspectives to improve understanding of demographic dynamics.
  • Features international perspective on population studies.
  • Publishes original research papers including empirical studies, theoretical and methodological analysis, and policy reviews.

Editor-in-Chief
  • Xiaochun Qiao
Executive Editor-in-Chief
  • Hongyan Liu
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5 days
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190,845 (2023)

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  • Meet China Population and Development Studies at the PAA 2024 Annual Meeting

    From April 17th to 20th, 2024, the foremost global academic conference in the field of demography — the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) — will be grandly convened in Columbus, USA. China Population and Development Studies journal will host a booth at this prestigious event, located at Stand No. 414. This presents a unique opportunity for the journal to engage in profound dialogue with experts and scholars worldwide, collectively examining the universal challenges and prospects concerning population and development, thereby enhancing the journal's visibility and influence within the academic community. 

  • Call for Papers: Projections/analyses of Households and Living Arrangements, and Applications in Healthy Aging and Sustainable Development Studies

    In this special issue, we are looking for papers on one of the following topics related to any countries in the world: Analyses on past, present and future trends in families, households, living arrangements and the implications; Applications of family household analyses and projections in research on healthy aging, socio-economic planning, social status analyses, policy analyses, children’s education, elderly care needs/costs and other home-based services, big data analyses, market analyses, age-friendly housing, home-based energy-use (such as water, electricity and gas), environment protection, food, furniture, and vehicles, etc.; Household and living arrangement projections at sub-national and county/city levels; Policy analyses related to family households and living arrangements; Research progress in methodology, user-friendly software development and databases for probabilistic projections/analyses of households and living arrangements; Other related topics.

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Electronic ISSN
2523-8965
Print ISSN
2096-448X
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