Welcome to the Department of Demography!


The Department of Demography combines demographic research and teaching in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna. It also serves as the University-based pillar of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, OeAW, University of Vienna), which holds an international reputation in the field.

Demography is the scientific study of how populations grow, shrink, and evolva over time. It analysis and mathematically models the multiple structures of human populations by age, sex, place of residence, level of education and other key demography characteristics of individuals. IT focuses on fertility, mortality and migration as determinants of population size and structure, and on the mechanisms underlying their change. By linking past, present and future population dynamics to society, the economy and the environment, demography plays an important role in understanding today's global world changes.

News

This year's WIC Conference 2024 on "Delayed Reproduction: Challenges and Prospects" is part of Eva Beaujouan's ERC project BIC.LATE.

University of Vienna Postdoc Endale Kebede with colleagues Saroja Adhikari at MPIDR and Wolfgang Lutz at IIASA publishes this new PNAS article.

Prof. Eva Beaujouan participates in a panel discussion on reproductive medicine organised by IMBA and Merck Österreich.

Prof. Lutz has been awarded the world’s most highly esteemed education prize for his research on the role of education as a driver of sustainable...

In an interview with ORF-Topos, Prof. Eva Beaujouan discusses the reasons why women in the Global North wait until their mid-30s to have children.

Researchers from the Department of Demography will present their research at the European Population Conference - EPC 2024, organised by the European...