Joseph Chamie
Joseph Chamie recently retired as research director of the Center for Migration Studies in New York and as editor of the International Migration Review. He was formerly the director of the United Nations Population Division, having worked at the UN on population and development for more than a quarter century.
Chamie has written numerous population studies for the UN and, under his own name, written studies about population growth, fertility, estimates and projections, international migration and population and development policy. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a trustee of the Migration Policy Institute. He lives in the New York metro area.
- Joseph Chamie
- • March 31, 2020
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Normally, the numbers of males and females in a human population are about the same across all such populations. However, pregnancy interventions by couples and unhealthy lifestyles among young men have produced gender imbalances, giving rise to “missing girls”…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, Health and Population
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- Joseph Chamie
- • October 2, 2017
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The demography is clear: when deaths outnumber births — excluding for zero immigration — populations decline. That simple yet powerful demographic relationship is irrefutable, regardless of geography, era, economics, political ideology or religious belief. Yet many politicians around the…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Geopolitics, Health and Population, Migration, Refugees
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- Joseph Chamie
- • June 18, 2017
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With few exceptions, women across the world live longer than men. Globally, life expectancies of women at birth exceed men by more than four years. At age 60, women live longer than men by nearly three years. Globally, average…
- Categories: Health and Population, SDGs, Women
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- Joseph Chamie
- • December 6, 2016
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It is not only “glass ceilings” limiting women’s career progress but also “glass floors” and “glass walls” blocking gender equality in the workplace. These hurdles actually limit the entry and mobility of both women and men in predominately gender-defined…
- Categories: Development, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Joseph Chamie
- • September 28, 2016
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An unprecedented imbalance in sex ratios of more boys than girls being born is seriously underway in six Asian countries. As the imbalances spread across reproductive and marriageable age groups, the well-being of those Asian nations, which together represent…
- Categories: Asia, Health and Population, Women
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- Joseph Chamie
- • August 10, 2016
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You have a right to leave your country, but you don’t have a right to enter another country. That asymmetry of human rights is a basic axiom of the global international migration system. Nearly 70 years ago, the Universal…
- Categories: Human Rights, Migration, Refugees
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- Joseph Chamie
- • January 6, 2016
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Despite remarkable reductions in mortality, 13 sub-Saharan African countries — 1 out of every 20 people in the world — have yet to achieve life expectancies at birth of 55 years, the global average attained a half century ago….
- Categories: Africa, Development, Health and Population, Poverty, SDGs, Women
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- Opinion by Joseph Chamie
- • November 18, 2015
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Achieving gender equality is a commendable goal and has been incorporated in the 17 recently adopted United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Gender equality, however, should not be used to detract from efforts to improve the equality of women and…
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- Opinion by Joseph Chamie
- • March 11, 2015
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After the failure of United States mediated peace talks, the Gaza-Israel war and the recent tensions in Jerusalem, the prospects for a near-term settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have reached an all-time low. Given those conditions, it is useful…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Joseph Chamie
- • October 27, 2014
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In politics it is often said: “While the future is known, it’s the past that keeps changing.” In demography, it’s exactly the opposite: while the past is known, it’s the future that keeps changing. That is simply because population’s…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Health and Population, Women
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- Opinion by Joseph Chamie
- • February 2, 2014
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A large amount of news, analysis and political rhetoric is disseminated daily about the current American-initiated Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. However, comparatively little attention — and, hence, insufficient understanding — is given to a  critical aspect of the decades-old…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Joseph Chamie
- • January 7, 2013
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Is the planet full? And how many plates are empty? These are the first two questions that came to my mind from the title of Lester R. Brown‘s new book, “Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food…
- Categories: Africa, BOOKS, Climate Change
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- Opinion by Joseph Chamie
- • April 12, 2012
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With three major international United Nations conferences being planned or proposed to update the 1992 Rio earth summit, the 1994 Cairo population conference and the 1995 Beijing global meeting on women’s rights, the topic of population growth and its…
- Categories: Health and Population, OPINIONS
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