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Path to Prosperity: Empower, Educate, and Employ Youth to Realize the Demographic Dividend

On Dec. 8, 2015, the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program is hosted a full day event that explored how countries can achieve a demographic dividend through empowerment, education, and employment for youth.

Investments in young people are crucial to achieving a demographic dividend. The demographic dividend provides a framework for promoting investments in youth as fertility declines and population age structure changes. Sustained investments in voluntary family planning, health, education, and job growth can help to guide a country towards a demographic dividend.

Some related PRB materials include:

Give and Take Across Generations: How Changing Age Structure Can Lead to Economic Growth Video thumbnail

Give and Take Across Generations: How Changing Age Structure Can Lead to Economic Growth

 Harnessing the Demographic Dividend: A PRB ENGAGE Presentation Video thumbnail

Harnessing the Demographic Dividend: A PRB ENGAGE Presentation