CPop conducts innovative research on changes in survival, longevity, and population aging, including their policy, economic, and cultural implications.
Demography
We conduct innovative theoretical and empirical demographic research spanning over a broad range of topics
Population studies
Our master’s programme in demography – Denmark’s only one – equips future experts to help society navigate major demographic challenges
CPop
CPop is Denmark’s only research center dedicated to the study of demography
Workshop
02.03.2026
The Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics (CPop) will host an ERC Workshop on "A Unified Perspective on Formation and Dissolution Processes in Demography," 9-11 March 2026, at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
14.04.2023
The demographic development is crucial for how we organise society, and from next year a new master’s programme at SDU will educate demographers who can contribute to tackling the challenges. It will be Denmark’s only education programme in demography.
06.02.2023
How long people live in violent countries is less predictable and life expectancy for young people can be as much as 14 years shorter compared to peaceful countries, according to a new study today from an international team, led by Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark and Oxford University.
11.10.2022
José Manuel Aburto has been awarded with a Silver Medal of The Royal Danish Academy for his cutting-edge research into global health and inequality
Obituary
03.04.2022
With deep sadness, we announce that our founding Director, Prof Dr. James W. Vaupel, died on Sunday, March 27th, 2022 after an unexpected and short period of illness.
17.03.2022
Annette Baudisch receives a highly competitive ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council to explore and find new patterns in fertility data.
01.10.2021
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered life expectancy losses not seen since World War II in Western Europe and exceeded those observed around the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc in central and Eastern European countries. Nordic Europe, with the exception of Sweden, have seen less dramatic impact of COVID-19 however. A new comparative study by our researchers and co-authors from Oxford University documents the unprecedented life expectancy change by sex and broad age groups published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
06.09.2021
Welfare states mainly redistribute resources between age groups (from those who work to those who do not). Their impact on leveling off socio-economic status inequalities is much smaller in comparison. Pieter Vanhuysse and co-authors remind us that poverty alleviation and inequality mitigation potential is explicitly or implicitly part of most government interventions and that social policies should not be the sole ones that shoulder the blame for imperfect result.
12.02.2021
New article about progress in longevity in the past and future. Our James Vaupel, Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher and Francisco Villavicencio address an essential question of how much can human lifespan be extended.
03.08.2020
A new paper on variation in causes of death sheds further light on our understanding of population health and ageing. Just published in BMJ Global Health by our Marie-Pier Bergeron Boucher and José Manuel Aburto with Alyson van Raalte.
