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 ...

With 1.4 billion and 1.2 billion people respectively, China and India currently account for 37 per cent of the world’s population. Thirty years later, they are expected to account for roughly the same ...

I recently moved back to Russia after spending more than two decades away – and I found a country quite different from the one I left in the late 1990s. The development journey that Russia has ...

This blog post quantifies impact of demographic shifts and finds that they lowered unemployment rate by approximately 0.4 percentage points over past 30 years. Read more here.

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 ...

One of the more striking trends across the developed world in recent decades is the demographic transition. As economies develop, and women in particular enter the workforce, people have fewer ...

In 2018, for the first time in history, the population over 64 surpassed the population under five. This demographic ...

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