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Ghana / Improving human capital to get the Demographic Dividend
Discussants at a National Dialogue on Harnessing the Demographic Dividend for Ghana’s Development agree there’s a need for the country to improve the quality of its human capital Continue reading
The Talent War / The implications of the demographic outlook and immigration flows are substantial says a report
The implications for policymakers are substantial. First of all, receiving countries will have to invest more in developing smart migration, integration, and nondiscrimination policies Continue reading
US Census / Asians fastest-growing ethnic group and median age climbed to 37.4 in 2012
The U.S. Census Bureau announced Asians were the nation’s fastest-growing race or ethnic group in 2012. Their population rose by 530,000, or 2.9 percent, in the preceding year, to 18.9 million, according to Census Bureau annual population estimates. More than 60 percent of this growth in the Asian population came from international migration. By comparison, … Continue reading
2050: With fewer people we can’t just get rid of people and hire news ones
Mara Swan shared a map showing the predicted distribution for the estimated world population in 2050. It shows that the population is moving east (which represents a big challenge for values and mind-sets – most of our companies are based on Western and Christian values, yet most of the workforce’s are based on Eastern and … Continue reading
India / A “demographic dividend” ?
ONE of India’s bigger private-sector employers can be found in Patna, the capital of Bihar, a poor, populous state in the east of the country. Narendra Kumar Singh, the boss, has three gold rings on his right hand and arms big enough to crush rocks. His firm, Frontline, has 86,000 people on its books. They … Continue reading
Compagnies are over-dependent on male Baby Boomer CEOs research finds
Organisations are not adequately prepared for the cultural changes that will occur as executives from the baby boomer generation retire and are replaced by their Generation X and Y counterparts, a study has found. The study After the baby boomers: the next generation of leadership, by global executive search firm Odgers Berndtson in conjunction with … Continue reading
The Demography of Largest Countries 2010–50 in a Figure
Source: THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE GREAT RECESSION: THE CHALLENGE OF SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
Japan / Growth and Quality of Life
To answer that question, we need to do two things. First, we need a way of measuring the quality of life. Second, we need to distinguish between the effect on quality of life of a country’s level of income and the effect of growth per se. Putting these two things together allows us to formulate … Continue reading
China / Working-age population shrank in 2012
China’s working-age population shrank in 2012, marking the beginning of a trend that will accelerate over the next two decades and have profound implications for the world’s second-largest economy. By the end of December China’s population aged between 15 and 59 was 937.27 m, a decrease of 3.45m from 2011, according to figures released by … Continue reading
UK 2011 Census / Key Statistics
The resident population of England and Wales on 27 March 2011 was 56.1 million, a seven per cent (3.7 million) increase since 2001 with 55 per cent (2.1 million) of this increase being due to migration. One in six people were aged 65 or over (16 per cent, 9.2 million). Most residents of England and … Continue reading
US / Birth Rate Falls to a Record Low, Worse Among Immigrants
The U.S. birth rate dipped in 2011 to the lowest ever recorded, led by a plunge in births to immigrant women since the onset of the Great Recession. The overall U.S. birth rate, which is the annual number of births per 1,000 women in the prime childbearing ages of 15 to 44, declined 8% from … Continue reading
Singapore | Working age population to contract by over 330,000
“The world’s working-age population will increase by over a billion people over the next 20 years, but all growth will come in developing economies while at the same time the developed world will see its workforce shrink and age. In Singapore, the working age population will fall by 338,000 people by 2030.” writes Chris Mead … Continue reading
The improvement in life expectancy
Everyone knows that human life expectancies have been improving. But just how extraordinary and incomparable that improvement has been is not widely understood. Demographers Oskar Burgera, Annette Baudischa, and James W. Vaupel offer two remarkable sets of comparisons in “Human mortality improvement in evolutionary context,” which appears in a recent issue of the Proceedings of … Continue reading
China – The end of one-child policy ?
A Chinese government think-tank is urging the country’s leaders to start phasing out its one-child policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015, a daring proposal to do away with the unpopular policy. Some demographers see the timeline put forward by the China Development Research Foundation as a bold move by the … Continue reading
UK – 1/4 of British babies are children of immigrants
There were 808,000 births in the UK last year, of which 196,000 were children born to non-UK born women – or 24 per cent. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows there has been a steady increase in the number of children born to mothers who were born abroad since 2001, when the … Continue reading
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