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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

DEBATE

The growing gap in cognitive skills within and between countries

Wolfgang Lutz

DEBATE

Revisiting within-cohort compositional change to understand mortality inequalities

Alyson van Raalte, Yana Vierboom, Pekka Martikainen

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Inequalities in health outcomes by income and education: The case of Norway

Carl Michael Baravelli, Tord Finne Vedøy, Rannveig K. Hart, Jonas Minet Kinge, Astri Syse

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.