Institut national d'études démographiques

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The Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED - National Institute of Demographic Studies) is a French public establishment. It was created on October 24, 1945 by the ordonnance n°45-2499, which dissolved Alexis Carrel's Fondation française pour l'Étude des problèmes humains ("French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems"). Alexis Carrel had been discredited because of his collaborationist role during Vichy France and his implementation of eugenics. Thus, famous demographist Alfred Sauvy (who coined the expression "Third World") was chosen to direct the new institute. The founding juridical text defined as such the mission of the institute: "The INED has as task to study demographics problems under all their aspects. In order to do so, the institute gathers any useful documentation, opens up investigations, proceeds in experiences and follows experiences done abroad, study material and moral means susceptibles to contribute to the population's quantitative augmentation and qualitative amelioration and insure the diffusion of scientific knowledge." The INED published the monthly letter Population & Sociétés, directed by Gilles Pison, and the bimestrial scientific review Population. The INED presently hosts Cicred and IUSSP within its premices.