5 September 2024 - The global demographic landscape has evolved greatly, driven in large part by rapid fertility declines in some of the world’s most populous countries. Understanding how population ...

The US workforce has undergone a profound demographic transition in recent decades: it has aged significantly, and the share of workers with a college education has steadily risen. This blog post ...

Central Asia is entering a decisive demographic phase, with rapid population growth and a sharply expanding workforce, while ...

The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major shift from a decade ago, a new report by the United ...

China’s population of 1.4 billion people is the largest in the world, right? Not anymore. In 2023 India surpassed China as the most populous country. China’s population began shrinking in 2022, and ...

Population aging is a strong trend that will lead to greater fiscal imbalances and economic stagnation in high-income countries. Immigration is a way to offset population decline, but there is a risk ...

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World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results adopts the analytical framework of the demographic transition—the historic shift towards longer lives and smaller families—approximated here by the ...

Where is Africa heading? The question has occupied Jakkie Cilliers for years. He is the founder and chairman of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), a research and analysis centre in Pretoria ...