VYPR Home

View the current issue →

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.

More about the journal →

News

〉〈

New website design

Our redesigned journal website now offers enhanced access to articles (2018–present) and machine-readable XML files to support academic research and digital workflows.

Read more →
Special issue on Population inequality matters

Guest editors: Miguel Sánchez-Romero, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Iñaki Permanyer, Michaela Potančoková and Vanessa di Lego

The first article of the special issue has been published online first. The 2025 volume of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research focusses on the role of population inequality in demographic research.

Read more →
Call for papers

The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research welcomes submissions for a Special Issue on Delayed Reproduction: Patterns, Challenges and Prospects.

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

Read more →

Discover latest articles

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

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Leadership skills and family formation among males. A study based on Swedish register data

Steffen Peters, Kieron Barclay

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Life tables under current risk composition based on observed, fixed characteristics

Magdalena Muszyńska-Spielauer, Tim Riffe

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Life course heterogeneity and the future labour force – A dynamic microsimulation analysis for Austria

Thomas Horvath, Martin Spielauer, Philipp Warum

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.