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An open-access journal with a focus on population trends.

The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) is an open-access journal that features contributions addressing population trends as well as a broad range of theoretical and methodological issues in population research.

Each volume is devoted to a selected theme following special calls, fostering timely contributions on topics of central importance to population research.

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Special issue on Delayed reproduction

Guest editors: Éva Beaujouan, Marie-Caroline Compans, Alice Goisis, Jasmin Passet-Wittig

The first articles of the special issue has been published online first. The 2026 volume of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research focusses on demographic patterns, challenges and prospects of delayed reproduction.

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Call for papers

The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research welcomes submissions for a Special Issue on Demographic perspectives on migration.

Guest editors: Michaela Potančoková, Roman Hoffmann, Dilek Yildiz,
Eleonora Mussino, James Raymer, Claudia Masferrer and Gregor Zens.

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Articles are published online on a rolling basis. Full text PDFs are freely and immediately available for download from our journal website.

Research Article

How do reproductive events other than live births shape the timing of a second child?

Jitka Slabá, Anna Šťastná, Jiřina Kocourková

Research Article

Partners’ age differences and first birth transitions by age at first and second union in Europe

M-C Compans, Alessandra Trimarchi, Eva Beaujouan

DEBATE

Addressing the repro-paradox: From individual responsibility to the institutional conditions of reproductive timing

Jiřina Kocourková

The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research is an open access journal

All contents is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the other (see also our Licensing information). Article submission, processing and publication, including coloured graphs, are free of charge.