Socio-economic and demographic consequences of population age structure in ECA member states

Abstract

In this paper an overall analysis has focused on population structure, its growth components of fertility and mortality, age distribution structure and dependence. The synthesis of consequences of population and socio-economic development has also been deduced. The data used come from population projections prepared recently4. These data are not the best available because of their underlying assumptions, therefore one needs to be cautious to interpret its results. The first part presents an analysis of population growth, fertility and mortality. Factors of demographic structure, like age distribution, its dependence and ageing including median ages have been presented in part two. Population and development implications are discussed in the third part. The last part synthesizes the discussion of the arguments.