Population and Development Review


Population and Development Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Population Council. It was established in 1975 and the editor-in-chief is Landis MacKellar. The journal covers population studies, the relationships between population and economic, environmental, and social change, and related thinking on public policy. Content types are original research articles, commentaries, data and perspectives on statistics, archival documents on population issues, book reviews, and official documents from population agencies or related organizations.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 3.547, ranking it first out of 28 journals in the category "Demography" and 6th out of 147 journals in the category "Sociology".