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demographic dividends

demographic dividends is the plural of demographic dividend.

Meaning of demographic dividend

Noun

demographic dividend (plural demographic dividends)

  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.
    • It seems all but inevitable that China will move out of its "youth bulge" or demographic dividends period over the next several decades, as various studies show.2011 February 18, James Fallows, “How to Solve China's Gender Imbalance? The 'Babe Tax'”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2011

Questions about demographic dividends

What is demographic dividends the plural of?
Demographic dividends is the plural of demographic dividend.

Words near demographic dividends in the dictionary

  1. demograph
  2. demographer
  3. demographers
  4. demographic
  5. demographic dividend
  6. demographic dividends
  7. demographic tax
  8. demographic transition
  9. demographic transitions
  10. demographical
  11. demographically

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