New population figures, disaggregated by age, ethnicity, gender, and other factors, now reflect the diversity of our societies more accurately. These advancements have significantly enhanced the ...

An aging population and slower labor force growth affect economies in many ways—the growth of GDP slows, working-age people pay more to support the elderly, and public budgets strain under the burden ...

population size, density, age structure, fecundity (birth rates), mortality (death rates), and sex ratio (Dodge 2006). We introduce each of these in turn. Populations display distinctive behaviors ...

Meanwhile, the working-age population (20-64 years old) will remain mostly unchanged, increasing by only 3 percent, and the child population (0–17) will shrink by 24 percent. The 10-14 years old ...

By age group, those 75 and over rose in number by 710,000 to 20.76 million, accounting for 16.8 percent of the total population, up 0.7 percentage point. Those 80 and over increased by 310,000 to ...

This year India is set to surpass China's population, and in a few years it will surpass China's working-age population — people 20 to 69. The United Nations has estimated that if China's birth ...