Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques

Name

Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques

Legal name

Institut National d'Études Démographiques

Website

https://www.ined.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1945

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques is a public research institute for demographic studies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Demographic Research

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720), Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling (541910), Public Administration (92), Libraries and Archives (51921)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Health Data, Vital Statistics & Population Health Informatics (BPAIAJAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Mortality, Cause-of-Death Coding & Excess Death Analysis (HLAJAJAG), Data Integration, Interoperability & Reporting (ELR/HIE/CDC/NNDSS) (HLAJABAN), Syndicated Market Research (Panels, Omnibus, Tracker Studies) (MPAAALAB)

Keywords

• Demographic research
• Population studies
• Academic publishing
• Longitudinal surveys
• Open access journals

Headquarters

HQ city

Aubervilliers

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Research Funding: INED is a French public research institute (Établissement Public à Caractère Scientifique et Technologique) funded primarily through government appropriations for research and public service missions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

INED is a French public research institute that conducts demographic research on population dynamics including fertility, mortality, migration, family, aging, and social inequalities. It publishes the quarterly peer-reviewed journal Population, the monthly bulletin Population & Sociétés, over 350 scientific books through Éditions de l'Ined, and maintains research databases including CLD-Ined on child labour and survey datasets such as Trajectoires et Origines (TeO). The institute conducts large-scale longitudinal surveys and distributes outputs primarily through open access channels.

Product overview

INED is France's national demographic research institute offering a comprehensive portfolio of scholarly publications and research databases. The core publishing products include the quarterly journal Population (international reference in demography since 1946), the monthly bulletin Population & Sociétés for science communication, and over 350 books across five collections. Specialized offerings include the CLD-Ined database on child labour (integrating 208 surveys from 90 countries), the TeO2 survey dataset on immigrant trajectories, and the GUIDE/EuroCohort international survey project. Publications are distributed through multiple channels including OpenEdition Books, Cairn, JSTOR, and Project Muse, with a focus on open access. The institute also publishes the innovative multimedia web publication 'Mémoires européennes du goulag' and provides data visualization tools like 'Tous les pays du monde' for demographic indicators.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Population: Official journal of INED, published quarterly in French and English since 1946
• Population & Sociétés
• Classiques de l'économie et de la population
• Trajectoires et Origines (TeO)
• GUIDE/EuroCohort
• CLD-Ined
• ArchIned

Products and services

• Archined Institutional open archive of INED providing access to research publications and data, supporting open science and long-term preservation of research outputs.
• GUIDE/EuroCohort International collaborative birth cohort survey project (Growing Up in Digital Europe) on child well-being in Europe. INED coordinates the French component. The main survey is planned for 2028 with 20 countries participating.
• Population (revue) International reference journal in demography published quarterly by INED since 1946. It appears 4 times per year in print and electronic format, simultaneously in French and English, covering all regions of the world. Articles undergo double-blind peer review.
• Population & Sociétés Monthly scientific information bulletin published since 1968, available in French and English. Each four-page issue addresses a specific demographic or social topic in an accessible format for a broad public audience including educators, students, journalists, and policymakers.
• Éditions de l'Ined - Ouvrages Over 350 scientific books published across five active collections (Questions de populations, Grandes Enquêtes, Classiques de l'économie et de la population, Méthodes et savoirs, Études et enquêtes historiques) covering demography, economics, history, geography, sociology, anthropology, statistics, biology, epidemiology, and social science methodology.
• CLD-Ined (Child Labour Database) Online database providing in-depth analysis of child labour data, integrating 208 surveys from 90 countries (2000-2023) using harmonized MICS and DHS data through IPUMS. The database allows analysis across different definitions of child labour including economic and non-economic work.
• Mémoires européennes du goulag Innovative online publication format developed as a 'continuous book' with multimedia content documenting research on forced displacements in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Published in French, English, Russian, and Polish.
• Tous les pays du monde Interactive data visualization tool providing demographic indicators, tables, graphs, and maps for all countries worldwide, based on UN World Population Prospects 2024 data. Includes downloadable XLSX format.
• Trajectoires et Origines 2 (TeO2) Major statistical survey conducted by INED and INSEE in 2019-2020 with 27,000 respondents aged 18-59. The survey analyzes trajectories of immigrants and their descendants, covering education, employment, housing, family, health, discrimination, cultural practices, and national belonging.

Quantifiable outcome

• World population clock displaying real-time global population figures

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

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Partnerships

24 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Morocco's High Commission for Planning (HCP)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2026Framework agreement signed in February 2026 for scientific cooperation in public statistics and population studies. Joint research on mortality, family dynamics, and international migration using Moroccan civil register data and HCP's Family Survey 2025. Includes training programs in life history analysis and collaborative research projects.
• Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoordinator of the GUIDE/EuroCohort project alongside University College Dublin. Leads international birth cohort study on children's well-being across Europe.
• University College Dublin (UCD)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-coordinator of the GUIDE/EuroCohort project on children's well-being. Major international collaborative demographic research initiative.
• University of Bologna (UNIBO)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study.
• Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Science (IPI)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Croatia.
• University of Helsinki (HU)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Finland.
• German Youth Institute (DJI)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Germany.
• Federal Institute For Population Research (BIB)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Germany.
• Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Spain.
• Stichting Centerdata (CD)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from the Netherlands.
• Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from the UK.
• Research Institute for Work and Society (HIVA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Belgium.
• University of Antwerp (UA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Belgium.
• Tallinn University (TLU)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Estonia.
• Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (PUSPS)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Greece.
• University of Debrecen (DE)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Hungary.
• Daugavpils University (DU)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Latvia.
• Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Luxembourg.
• University of Malta (UM)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Malta.
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Norway.
• Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Portugal.
• Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave (UCM)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Slovakia.
• Science and Research Centre Koper (KOPER)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the GUIDE/EuroCohort international birth cohort study from Slovenia.
• INSEE (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint conduct of the Trajectoires et Origines (TeO) survey series - the largest quantitative survey on immigrant trajectories and their descendants in France. TeO1 conducted 2008-2009, TeO2 conducted 2019-2020 with over 27,000 respondents.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research: Germany-based, world-leading demographic research institute conducting longitudinal studies, mortality/fertility research, and publishing in demography. Closest functional peer to INED with overlapping scientific scope and international standing.
• Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital: Vienna-based collaboration between IIASA, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and University of Vienna focused on demographic forecasting, human capital, and global population projections — directly comparable research mission and European footprint.
• Office of Population Research (Princeton University): Long-standing US academic demographic research center conducting fertility, mortality, and family studies; operates within a university rather than as a standalone public institute but pursues identical research themes.
• Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED): Catalonia-based demographic research center affiliated with Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, focused on Mediterranean and European demographic transitions. Comparable academic demographic research mandate and scale.

Broad incumbents

• INSEE: French national statistics institute — a core partner of INED on TeO surveys and France's primary producer of demographic and economic statistics. Operates broadly across all statistical domains rather than specializing purely in demography.
• UN Population Division: Produces authoritative global population estimates and projections (which INED's data tools reference). Operates at supranational scale across all countries rather than focusing on national longitudinal research.
• Office for National Statistics (UK): UK national statistics office producing demographic data, population estimates, and surveys; comparable institutional function for Britain that INED serves for France, but with broader economic and social remit.
• Statistics Netherlands (CBS): Dutch national statistics agency producing demographic microdata and population statistics; comparable European peer in scope and openness of population data publishing.

Emerging players

• Institut national d'études démographiques (INED) partner universities — e.g., London School of Economics Population Studies: Academic demographic research group within LSE focused on UK and European population dynamics; comparable research output with smaller institutional scale than INED.

Others

• European Demographic Research Network: Network of European demographic researchers and the open-access Demographic Research journal — comparable scholarly publishing platform and ecosystem that overlaps with INED's dissemination channels.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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