There is long-standing debate on how population growth affects national economies. A new report from Population Matters examines the history of this debate and

This book discusses policies to achieve inclusive growth in India and realise the demographic dividend, which will end by 2040 when India will become an aging s

As fertility rates decrease, a country’s working-age population grows larger relative to the young dependent population. With more people in the labor force a

Africa is poised on the edge of a potential takeoff to sustained economic growth. This takeoff can be abetted by a demographic dividend from the changes in popu

This book examines the promises as well as the challenges the demographic dividend brings to sub-Saharan Africa as fertility rates in the region fall and the la