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Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management

Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management is a research topic within Demography. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 27.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the challenges and trends in population ageing research, including topics such as mortality forecasting, life expectancy, epidemiologic transition, demographic projections, longevity risk, Bayesian models, cohort analysis, global population trends, and health demography.

  • Population Ageing
  • Mortality Forecasting
  • Life Expectancy
  • Epidemiologic Transition
  • Demographic Projections
  • Longevity Risk
  • Bayesian Models
  • Cohort Analysis
  • Global Population Trends
  • Health Demography
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
27.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+7%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (623 and 548 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 623 works
  2. 2 China 548 works
  3. 3 India 204 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 170 works
  5. 5 Italy 132 works
  6. 6 Australia 124 works
  7. 7 Germany 122 works
  8. 8 Canada 118 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 113 works
  10. 10 France 95 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 27.7%China: 24.4%India: 9.1%United Kingdom: 7.6%6 others listed: 31.3%28%largest
United States623 · 27.7%China548 · 24.4%India204 · 9.1%United Kingdom170 · 7.6%6 others listed703 · 31.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Shandong University publishes the most Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management research, followed by Australian National University and UNSW Sydney.

Who are the leading researchers in Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management include Christopher J L Murray, Simon I Hay and Theo Vos.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 13k citations
  2. 2 Simon I Hay United States 12k citations
  3. 3 Theo Vos United States 12k citations
  4. 4 Ali H. Mokdad United States 10k citations
  5. 5 Ted R. Miller United States 8.1k citations
  6. 6 Sadaf G Sepanlou Iran 8k citations
  7. 7 Young‐Ho Khang South Korea 7.6k citations
  8. 8 Mohsen Naghavi United States 7.4k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management research done?

The largest centres of Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Sydney (Australia) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 110 works
  2. 2 London United Kingdom 60 works
  3. 3 Sydney Australia 45 works
  4. 4 Moscow Russia 43 works
  5. 5 New York United States 40 works
  6. 6 Shanghai China 40 works
  7. 7 Seoul South Korea 37 works
  8. 8 Tokyo Japan 34 works
  9. 9 Nanjing China 31 works
  10. 10 Rome Italy 31 works
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Where is the best place to study Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Australian National University, Macquarie University and UCLouvain score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 30.68%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Australian National University: 18, 41.2%Macquarie University: 14, 35.9%UCLouvain: 10, 32.9%Tribhuvan University: 14, 14.5%The University of Melbourne: 14, 34.8%City, University of London: 9, 32.2%UNSW Sydney: 17, 27.7%Renmin University of China: 11, 28.7%University of Waterloo: 14, 25.1%Sapienza University of Rome: 15, 33.8%Australian National …Macquarie UniversityUCLouvainTribhuvan University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Australian National UniversityAustralia 77.841.2%9.8×18 +51.9%
2 Macquarie UniversityAustralia 65.335.9%10.9×14 -17.3%
3 UCLouvainBelgium 56.732.9%10.9×10 +13.7%
4 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 56.114.5%8.9×14 +561.1%
5 The University of MelbourneAustralia 54.934.8%4.0×14 +121.9%
6 City, University of LondonUnited Kingdom 53.732.2%25.5×9 +7.5%
7 UNSW SydneyAustralia 52.427.7%5.5×17 +20.3%
8 Renmin University of ChinaChina 52.028.7%9.5×11 +12.5%
9 University of WaterlooCanada 50.325.1%7.1×14 +10.6%
10 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 49.033.8%3.8×15 +53.9%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 7% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.