Tag: demography

NPR: Declining Birth Rates and the End of Growth as We Know It

 

Credit: Brian Mann/NPR

NPR’s Population Shift series examines how declining birth rates are reshaping the global economy, with families worldwide having fewer children. They interviewed LaMP’s Co-Founder and Research Director, Lant Pritchett, who explained that this demographic shift is challenging assumptions about economic growth that evolved during an era of rapid population increases. He warned that we’re entering uncharted territory, since we lack historical examples of countries navigating dramatic demographic decline.

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The Future is Older

OECD countries are rapidly aging – their working age populations are shrinking, while their elderly populations are growing. This has significant fiscal and economic implications for these societies, yet thus far there has been no serious policy response. In this blog, Lant Pritchett explores these historically unprecedented and largely ignored trends.