Demographic Future News Today

About 70 percent of Ukrainian women who went abroad have higher educations. Those that haven't yet found good jobs will likely do so. Businesses, if not foreign governments, may want them to stay.

How can Ukraine build a future in the face of ominous population statistics? A forum in Kyiv talked strategies.

Today’s world is more demographically diverse than ever before. While the global population will continue to grow for decades to come, population growth is no longer the overriding reality for all countries. In Europe and East and Southeast Asia, for example, population decline is an increasingly common phenomenon, posing new challenges and opportunities to countries and entire continents. These shifts in population structure are characterised by a fall in fertility, rising life expectancy and...