Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
What is demography, and how can it provide us with a better understanding of our world and the people who live within it? In this micro-documentary, we hear from Dr José Manuel Aburto, Prof Ridhi Kashyap and Prof Jennifer Dowd - researchers at Oxford's Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science - as they use new types of data, methods and unconventional approaches to improve our understanding of human populations.
Produced by: Dr Fiona Suttle
Written, directed and filmed by: Rob Key
Edited by: Jack Tew
Camera Assistant: Dr Atreyi Chakrabarty
Life table image credits:
Visual 1 (1:40) = Visualisation of data from 'Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries' (academic.oup.com/ije/article/51/1/63/6375510?login=true#supplementary-data). Credit: Jonas Schöley, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Visual 2 (1:43) = Visualisation of data from 'Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19' (pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2004911117#supplementary-materials). Credit: Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
---
Subtítulos en español: Dieynaba Ngom Ba, Joana Palencia Larrainzar Y Leyla Hannah Tomasiak. Con la supervisión de Laura González Fernández (Facultad de Traducción y Documentación, Universidad de Salamanca, España)
What is demography, and how can it provide us with a better understanding of our world and the people who live within it? In this micro-documentary, we hear from Dr José Manuel Aburto, Prof Ridhi Kashyap and Prof Jennifer Dowd - researchers at Oxford's Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science - as they use new types of data, methods and unconventional approaches to improve our understanding of human populations.
Produced by: Dr Fiona Suttle
Written, directed and filmed by: Rob Key
Edited by: Jack Tew
Camera Assistant: Dr Atreyi Chakrabarty
Life table image credits:
Visual 1 (1:40) = Visualisation of data from 'Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries' (academic.oup.com/ije/article/51/1/63/6375510?login=true#supplementary-data). Credit: Jonas Schöley, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Visual 2 (1:43) = Visualisation of data from 'Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19' (pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2004911117#supplementary-materials). Credit: Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
---
Subtítulos en español: Dieynaba Ngom Ba, Joana Palencia Larrainzar Y Leyla Hannah Tomasiak. Con la supervisión de Laura González Fernández (Facultad de Traducción y Documentación, Universidad de Salamanca, España)
