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.

You may have heard the phrase ‘demographic cliff’ tossed around recently. The phrase inspires fear — a fall from a precipice, ...

An economist-turned-CEO spoke at a webinar on global demographic changes at Georgetown University Feb. 7. Wolfgang Fengler, the CEO of World Data Lab, a company focused on creating large data models ...

The economic impact of changes in population growth rates and age structure can dramatically shift as countries transition from high to low rates of mortality and fertility. Initially, mortality ...

The United States has enjoyed some level of population growth virtually every year for more than a century. But that doesn't ...

Two seemingly unrelated demographic trends are sending powerful warning signals to capital markets: emptying high-school classrooms and millions of unused bedrooms. These parallel developments ...

For decades, the world’s dominant powers have benefited from large working-age populations that help drive economic growth. Meanwhile, particularly young populations in much of the developing world ...

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

Demographic Research, Vol. 50 (JANUARY - JUNE 2024), pp. 221-290 (72 pages) BACKGROUND The demographic dividend, a concept that is widely used in development cooperation, describes the economic growth ...

ALBANY, NY (WRGB) — Starting next school year, one of the last private schools to offer single-sex classes will be changing structural operations next school year. The Albany Academies announced last ...

Changes in the demographic makeup of populations are a significant factor contributing to the rise of singledom. In the wake of what researchers call the second demographic transition, fewer people ...