Notas de Población announces its number 119 with new sections and articles on central topics of demography and population and development

The new edition of the magazine Notas de Población, published by the Center, offers a wide variety of articles that address various topics of demography, population and development, all of them very relevant to academic work, public debate and the policies of countries. Latin American and Caribbean Demography (CELADE) – Population Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which in its number 119 includes three sections that complement the traditional articles: i) story of events; ii) interviews and; iii) bibliographic review.

In the account of events, Leandro Reboiras, analyzes the Fifth Meeting of the Regional Conference on Population and Development of Latin America and the Caribbeanheld in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from July 3 to 4, 2024. This is followed by the interview with Noemí Espinoza, Ambassador at Special Mission for Women’s Affairs and President of the 57th session of the Commission on Population and Development of the United Nations, who refers to the debates and achievements of the 30 years of the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and its importance for the region, as well as the progress in the implementation of Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development. Likewise, Jorge Martínez Pizarro prepares the bibliographic review of the book Against inequality: contributions for a discourse of social emancipation, by Alejandro Canales and Dídimo Castillo.

Issue 119 of Population Notes also offers articles on international migration, daily mobility, mortality and life expectancy, vital records, residential emancipation, and population and environment. In addition to providing specialized data and analysis, the articles are suggestive for public policies and decision-making regarding population.

In the first article, “Contribution of immigrants to the demography and economic development of Chile”Alejandro Canales and Jorge Martínez Pizarro confirm the growing dependence of the country’s economy and demographics on the contribution made by immigrants. In the second article, “Impacts of migration from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on the Colombian labor market”William Mejía Ochoa raises two relevant findings: there is no impact on aggregate unemployment, but there is an impact on informality, while the income was affected, mainly, of less qualified native workers. In the third article, “From home to work: travel time, commutation and the composition effect”Luis Jaime Sobrino shows, with novel evidence, that mobility for work reasons not only changes the population size of municipalities during the work day, it also modifies the composition and patterns of residential segregation.

In the article “Being born alive during an escalation of violence in contexts of war in Colombia”Harold Mera León and Camilo Echandía Castilla confirm the protective effect of mothers’ university education for the survival of their children even in contexts of war and highlight that internal conflict exacerbates the risks for pregnancies and children of women with educational levels. low. In the fifth article, “Models for estimating mortality and life expectancy in small municipalities of Minas Gerais: two-stage approach”Denise Helena França Marques, Igor Augusto Tadeu de Souza, Tatiana Cunha e Silva Arteaga and Valéria Andrade Silva estimate the relationships between life expectancy at birth and social indicators of municipalities, which seem to be affected by the quality of the information available.

In the sixth article, “How many people did we leave behind? From the Civil Registry data to the accessibility of vital statistics in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela” Brenda Yépez and Jenny García show that, although there has been progress in updating and validating laws associated with the Civil Registry and vital statistics in the country, there is a notable lag in the development of regulations, in the regulation of processes and, especially in practices. In the seventh article, “Residential emancipation in the Southern Cone: comparative analysis of Chile and Uruguay, 2008-2018”Nicolás Aros-Marza and Pau Miret Gamundi conclude that the age of emancipation has been stable in Uruguay and increasing in Chile, that the pattern of this age according to sex and socioeconomic level is similar in both countries, and that this age is earlier among women and young people of low socioeconomic status in the two countries.

Finally, in the article “Assessment of the exposure of populations and hospitals to sea level rise in the low-lying coastal areas of Latin America and the Caribbean”Sabrina Juran, Andrew Tatem and Luis de la Rúa estimate that 41 million people and 1,448 hospitals in Latin America and the Caribbean are exposed to rising sea levels; Its location is an input for strategies for adaptation and protection of the population and health services.

Population Notes is a biannual publication with a history of 51 years whose main purpose is to disseminate studies on the population of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, although it also accepts contributions referring to other regions of the world.

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