The Demographic Drag: How Ageing and Shrinking Populations Are Reshaping Economic Potential
The Invisible Brake on Growth Behind the charts and projections of slowing global growth lies a quiet but powerful force: demographic change. The world is aging. Fertility rates are falling. Labor forces are shrinking. These trends are not short-term blips—they are long-term structural shifts that threaten to erode global potential output. While often framed as...



