Friday, July 18, 2025

The Impact of Global Demographic Shifts

There Is No Demographic Crisis. Only a Crisis of Care
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-jennifer-sciubba-weekend-interview/
The world’s population is expected to start shrinking this century. Political demographer Jennifer Sciubba says that’s no reason to panic. 

The Debate over Falling Fertility
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2025/06/the-debate-over-falling-fertility-david-bloom
A decline in global population later this century may threaten human progress, or it may lead to better lives.
 
Sustaining Growth in an Aging World
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2025/06/sustaining-growth-in-an-aging-world-bertrand-gruss
Older populations need not lead to slumping economic growth and mounting fiscal pressures.
 
The Longevity Dividend
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2025/06/the-longevity-dividend-andrew-scott
Aging populations should be embraced, not feared.

The mysterious statisticians shaping how we think about fertility 
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/396708/world-us-population-projections-estimates-2050-2100
Experts were wrong about overpopulation before. Could they be wrong about underpopulation now?

My take:
Are we worried about the wrong demographic problem? By Vivekanand Jayakumar
https://thehill.com/opinion/4954154-falling-birth-rates-global-economy/