Advancing skills in demographic analysis and applications

IIASA’s Population and Just Societies Program, in collaboration with the College of Population Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, will host the upcoming intensive training course “Demographic Analysis with Applications to Aging and Health” from 3 to 21 November 2025.

The program offers a comprehensive introduction to advanced demographic methods, focusing on the analysis of population aging, education, and health. Participants will explore population age structures, cohort analysis, and life table construction, while mastering data visualization, large dataset management, and population projection techniques. The course also introduces R programming and Generative AI tools for demographic modeling, predictive analytics, and problem-solving in population research.

Led by Professor Sergei Scherbov, a distinguished expert in demographic modeling and aging research, the training combines theoretical foundations with hands-on data applications. It builds on decades of IIASA’s pioneering work in demographic methods, population forecasting, and the development of multidimensional approaches linking education, health, and human capital to sustainable development.

This year’s program will also include the training of African postdoctoral fellows and PhD students from the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), University of Cape Town, as part of the Yidan Prize–supported project at IIASA, which emphasizes education as a transformative factor in human capital formation and sustainable development. The training is part of the project’s efforts to enable early-career researchers from Africa to engage in knowledge exchange, receive mentoring, and contribute to advancing the future of education research and its implementation across different African countries.

Over the past three decades, this internationally recognized workshop has trained nearly 400 participants from 28 countries, helping shape a global community of experts equipped to address the challenges of population aging and health dynamics in rapidly changing societies.