Jakub Bijak

Jakub Bijak

Jakub Bijak is Professor of Demographic Science at the University of Oxford, a recipient of the Allianz European Demographer Award (2015) and the Jerzy Z. Holzer Medal (2007). He holds a PhD from the Warsaw School of Economics, obtained for work on Bayesian migration forecasting. Previously, he worked for 17 years at the University of Southampton, and before that in the Central European Forum for Migration and Population Research in Warsaw and in the Demographic Unit of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. As a statistical demographer, he works on demographic uncertainty, modelling and forecasting of migration and population processes, and demography of conflict and violence.

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jakub.bijak@reuben.ox.ac.uk
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11 February 2026 | research article

Probabilistic projections of distributions of kin over the life course

Joe Butterick, Jason Hilton, Jakub Bijak, Peter W F Smith, Erengul Dodd

Volume: 54 Article ID: 9
Pages: 263–308
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2026.54.9

05 November 2019 | editorial

Editorial: The past, present, and future of Demographic Research

Griffith Feeney, Nico Keilman, Carl Schmertmann, Jakub Bijak

Volume: 41 Article ID: 41
Pages: 1197–1204
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.41

10 October 2019 | editorial

Editorial: P-values, theory, replicability, and rigour

Jakub Bijak

Volume: 41 Article ID: 32
Pages: 949–952
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.32

25 March 2014 | descriptive finding

Quantifying paradigm change in demography

Jakub Bijak, Daniel Courgeau, Eric Silverman, Robert Franck

Volume: 30 Article ID: 32
Pages: 911–924
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.30.32

10 December 2013 | research material

Integrating uncertainty in time series population forecasts: An illustration using a simple projection model

Guy Abel, Jakub Bijak, Jonathan J. Forster, James Raymer, Peter W F Smith, Jackie S.T. Wong

Volume: 29 Article ID: 43
Pages: 1187–1226
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2013.29.43

09 October 2013 | research article

Reforging the Wedding Ring

Jakub Bijak, Jason Hilton, Eric Silverman, Viet Dung Cao

Volume: 29 Article ID: 27
Pages: 729–766
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2013.29.27