January 8, 2025
Let’s Talk Demography: Why population dynamics matter for sustainable development
Healthy DEvelopments presents a dialogue series that explores how population dynamics impact key development areas, including social protection, food security and employment promotion. The “Let’s Talk Demography” series provides insights on how to address related challenges in these areas and how to promote sustainable progress.
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Population dynamics shapes development pathways
Population dynamics is the way in which populations change over time in terms of size, composition and geographical distribution. Global megatrends such as population growth, changes in age structure, migration and urbanisation impact in numerous ways on societies and their potential for development.
43% of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators are based on population data because population dynamics impacts on gender equality, health and education – key elements in shaping the future of the planet.
German development cooperation has recognised the importance of population dynamics for sustainable development processes in its partner countries. By reinforcing their methods of collecting and processing population data, for instance, population dynamicsit enables countries with a large youthful population to better orient development planning towards economic opportunities for young people, in order to reap a ‘demographic dividend’.
The studies, toolkits and stories on this page show how German-supported projects factor population dynamics into their work.
The4DSeries: Demographic Diversity and Dividends Dialogues
A dialogue series hosted by UNFPA, AU and Germany
Handbook
Download the population dynamics handbook here
Events
Studies
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Getting a better grasp on Togo’s future
Population dynamics at the heart of development planning