Vienna Institute of Demography (Ed.)
Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022
Demographic aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences
F. Landis MacKellar
S. 39 - 81
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
doi:
10.1553/populationyearbook2022.per02
Abstract:
The global sustainable development project as currently conceived is foundering, and the twin crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian War have driven a stake through its heart. Some of the reasons for this failure are fundamental design flaws, while others are practical. The resources to bring the project – or its successor, and any other global sustainable development project of similar design and ambition that might emerge – to a successful conclusion do not exist, and never did. What lessons are we learning, and how can they inform post-2030 sustainable development goals? In this essay, the effects of the catastrophes of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global sustainable development project are enumerated, SDG by SDG, with special attention being paid to the implications for demography. In closing, recommendations for reforms of the project are presented, as are some suggestions for the field of demography in the changed global context. The most concrete, feasible immediate recommendations are to make up recently lost ground, specifically in the areas of vaccination and education; and to reform the profoundly flawed international asylum and refugee system.
sustainable development; COVID-19; Russian invasion of Ukraine; demography
Published Online:
2022/12/13 10:33:58
Object Identifier:
0xc1aa5576 0x003de03c
Rights:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Introduction
The population aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic in 20 papers: an introduction
Paola Di Giulio - Anne Goujon - Guillaume Marois
Perspectives
Aspects of a sociology of the pandemic: Inequalities and the life course
Karl Ulrich Mayer
COVID-19, the Russo-Ukrainian War, the global sustainable development project and post-crises demography
F. Landis MacKellar
Research Articles
Effects of income inequality on COVID-19 infections and deaths during the first wave of the pandemic: Evidence from European countries
David A. Sánchez-Páez
Assessing the generational impact of COVID-19 using National Transfer Accounts (NTAs)
Miguel Sánchez-Romero
The mathematics of the reproduction number R for Covid-19: A primer for demographers
Luis Rosero-Bixby - Tim Miller
Pitfalls and solutions in case fatality risk estimation – A multi-country analysis on the effects of demographics, surveillance, time lags between case reports and deaths and healthcare system capacity on COVID-19 CFR estimates
Patrizio Vanella - Christian Wiessner - Anja Holz - Gérard Krause - Annika Möhl - Sarah Wiegel - Berit Lange - Heiko Becher
COVID-19 and relationship quality: Emotional, paid work and organizational spheres
Daniela Bellani - Daniele Vignoli
Narratives of the future and fertility decision-making in uncertain times. An application to the COVID-19 pandemic
Raffaele Guetto - Giacomo Bazzani - Daniele Vignoli
Cognitive schemas and fertility motivations in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic
Wendy D. Manning - Karen Benjamin Guzzo - Monica A. Longmore - Peggy C. Giordano
Human costs of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the major epicentres in Italy
Simone Ghislandi - Raya Muttarak - Markus Sauerberg - Benedetta Scotti
Excess mortality and COVID-19 in Sweden in 2020: A demographic account
Martin Kolk - Sven Drefahl - Matthew Wallace - Gunnar Andersson
Regional COVID-19 mortality in Brazil by age
Emerson A. Baptista - Bernardo L. Queiroz - Everton E. C. Lima
Are homicides and robberies associated with mortality due to COVID-19? Lessons from Urban Mexico
Claudia Masferrer - Oscar Rodríguez Chávez
Data and Trends
Assessing excess mortality in Vienna and Austria after the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
Ramon Bauer - Markus Speringer - Peter Frühwirt - Roman Seidl - Franz Trautinger
COVID-19 in Hong Kong: Policies and community actions mitigate the effects of age structure and population density
Zilin Li - Stuart A. Gietel-Basten - Rachel Ganly - Christian Joy Pattawi Cruz
Rapid changes in birth counts in Brazilian major cities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Everton C. Lima - Camila F. Soares - José H. C. Monteiro da Silva
Pregnancies and contraceptive use in four African countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
Andreas Backhaus
Exploring psychological vulnerability and responses to the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece
Lydia Xourafi - Polyxeni Sardi - Anastasia Kostaki
Why did care home residents face an elevated risk of death from COVID-19?
A demographic perspective using data from Belgium and from England and Wales
Nicole Mun Sim Lai
Comparing the loss of life expectancy at birth during the 2020 and 1918 pandemics in six European countries
Valentin Rousson - Fred Paccaud - Isabella Locatelli
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