Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

demographic dividend

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables
de-mo-graph-ic -div-i-dend
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
7
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

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What does demographic dividend mean?
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.
Where does demographic dividend come from?
Coined by David E. Bloom and David Canning.

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