The baby boom generation - which has changed Britain politically, culturally and economically - is now retiring. That means a large bulge of pensioners with big implications for the generations that come behind them. What will the challenges of both ageing and very young populations mean for the world. What are the implications for future migration patterns, for geopolitics and for global economic growth?
Professor Sarah Harper discussed how population change is transforming our world on BBC Radio 4 programme ‘The New World, It's the Demography, Stupid!’ This programme is part of a special week of programmes for the first week of 2017, examining major forces which are changing the world around us.
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Publication: Harper. S. (2016) How Population Change Will Transform Our World. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198784098
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