Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 4/2020

Demographic trends

Family planning

Fast population growth

Pakistan’s fertility rate is declining, but at a very slow rate

Beneficiaries of Zanzibar’s universal social pension in 2018.
Ageing and social protection

Africa’s demographic transition

For the care and social protection of Africa's aging population, governments must now take action

In Pakistan, many brides are teenagers.
Teenager

What sex education is really about

Pakistan shows why comprehensive sex education would improve young people’s lives

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India currently has comparatively few very young and very old persons: an infant and an old man from a rural community in Rajasthan
Societal Ageing

Turning grey

The rapid ageing of India’s population raises questions about who will support the country’s old people in future

Japan’s population is oldest in the world.
Population trends

More and more, older and older

Both ageing societies with declining populations and growing, youthful ones face serious challenges

Young women experience equality at university, but not in the workforce: student in Maputo.
Economic policy

Interrelated challenges

African policymakers must consider several cross-cutting trends

The informal sector remains huge: book seller in Nairobi.
Labour market

Masses of young people, too few jobs

How governance matters for creating full employment in Africa

Kenyan grandmother with grandchild.
Our view

Lay the foundations

Global trends must be managed in ways to ensure that 11 billion people can live good lives on Earth

The one-child family was the norm in China for decades: a family in Wuhan in 2006.
Retirement provisions

From the iron rice bowl to the filial piety law

China’s one-child policy is having catastrophic consequences for millions of pensioners

Life expectancy in Africa has risen thanks to improved health care: mass vaccination in Ethiopia.
Demographic dividend

Demographic change as a driver of economic growth

Will Africa really profit from a demographic dividend?

In Rwanda, as elsewhere in Africa, lots of children are seen as a sign of prosperity.
Population growth

Global challenge

Africa needs 450 million new jobs to benefit from the demographic dividend