''Population and Development Review'' is a quarterly

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published by

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on behalf of the

Population Council The Population Council is an international, nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The Council conducts research in biomedicine, social science, and public health and helps build research capacities in developing countries. One-third of its re ...

. It was established in 1975 and the journal is co-edited by Raya Muttarak and Joshua Wilde. The journal covers population studies, the relationships between population and economic, environmental, and

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, and related thinking on

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. Content types are original research articles, commentaries, data and perspectives on statistics, archival documents on population issues, book reviews, and official documents from population agencies or related organizations. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2023

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of 4.6, ranking first out of 49 journals in the category "Demography" and 7th out of 217 journals in the category "Sociology".

Past Editor

*2013-2021 Landis MacKellar (co-edited with Geoffrey McNicoll, 2013-2017 ) *1975-2012 Paul Demeny (co-edited with Geoffrey McNicoll, 2008-2012 )

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