Abstract Many scholars share the assumption that demographic patterns in world are converging over time. The present study analyses temporal trends of specific parameters mortality and fertility—together with certain socio-economic indicators—in 95 less least developed countries during period 1990–2015 discusses whether fertility convergent or divergent. We apply dynamic factor analysis cluster...

We show that Bayesian population reconstruction, a recent method for estimating past populations by age, works for data of widely varying quality. Bayesian reconstruction simultaneously estimates age-specific population counts, fertility rates, mortality rates, and net international migration flows from fragmentary data, while formally accounting for measurement error. As inputs, Bayesian recon...

OBJECTIVE To compare treatment effects from randomised trials conducted in more developed versus less developed countries. DESIGN Meta-epidemiological study. DATA SOURCES Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (August 2012). DATA EXTRACTION Meta-analyses with mortality outcomes including data from at least one randomised trial conducted in a less developed country and one in a more devel...