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

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 and

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

The field of political demography - the politics of population change - is dramatically underrepresented in political science. At a time when demographic change