In the first of my three reports (Ogden, 1998) I promised both to provide reviews that emphasized the vitality, relevance and interest of geographical studies of population (whether written by geographers or not and whether the geographers themselves would choose to be known as population geographers) and to take a critical line on some of the perceived or real deficiencies in the field. The years 1997 and early 1998, with which this review is principally concerned, have provided a good crop in support of both aims. Four themes suggest themselves this year: I begin with some more general, book-length contributions, covering broad international or national studies, including those that take a comparative or historical perspective; secondly, the interrelations between demographic change and the broader study of households, gender and sexuality; thirdly, some examples of continued methodological stirrings; and finally some notable work in that most geographical of demographic issues, migration, particularly aspects related to public policy.