English Explanatory Dictionary

demographic dividend

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The economic growth resulting from shifts in a population’s age structure, mainly when the share of the working-age population becomes larger than the non-working-age share.

Word forms

demographic dividend demographic dividends

Etymology

Coined by David E. Bloom and David Canning.

Related words

demographic transition
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