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

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 examines potential economic opportunities that countries can experience when fertility rates fall and the average life expectancy of the working age p

Demographic changes directly affect political and socioeconomic dynamics. Whether they are the nationalities of migrating refugees, the percentage of women in t

For decades, economists and social thinkers have debated the influence of population change on economic growth. Three alternative positions define this debate: