The Demographic Dividend. Initially, mortality declines faster than fertility, producing a bulge of young dependents that tends to depress economic growth. However, ...

That demographic dividend, produced by the entry into the labor market of the baby boom generation, propelled GDP growth past 4 percent for several years.

Demographic dividend without investments in human capital will be a wasted development opportunity, and it will further widen economic and social gaps, instead of narrowing them.

Education rather than age structure brings demographic dividend. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2019; 201820362 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1820362116 Cite This Page : ...

Young Populations Provide Cheap Labor, Lower Costs for Pensions, Health Care ...

The world’s demographics have already been transformed. Europe is shrinking. China is shrinking, with India, a much younger country, overtaking it this year as the world’s most populous nation.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the number of people aged 60 and above reached 249 million in China in 2018, about 18 percent of its total population. Moreover, China's new labor ...

Demographic Dividend or Debt? By . Samita Sawardekar. Share. Resize. With India's GDP growing at an average of 8% over the last decade, there is widespread belief that India will continue to grow ...