In 1986, two Dutch researchers advanced a provocative hypothesis: many societies were undergoing a “Second Demographic Transition” that would lead to durably low birth rates and high degrees of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information POPULATION, a bimonthly journal (five or six issues a year), published in French since 1946, features original studies in the field ...

By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow Fertility rates have fallen sharply and populations are ageing across most economies where the ...

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 ...

This blog post quantifies impact of demographic shifts and finds that they lowered unemployment rate by approximately 0.4 ...

AS BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS go, it was momentous. On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman. That is below the replacement rate—at ...

A new World Bank report notes that the slow decline of fertility rates in Africa will likely result in a rapidly growing population of youth, with the region becoming a much larger part of the world ...

Africa’s growing population of young people is an economic resource that could bring positive change to the continent’s economic future. African countries are experiencing what is known as the ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Africa will account for 80 percent of the projected 4 billion increase in the global population by 2100. The accompanying ...

Population aging produces changes in the availability of kin with uncertain implications for extended living arrangements. We propose a highly stylized model that can be used to analyze and project ...