THE world’s ageing, greying population doesn’t spell global economic disaster…at least not yet. Today’s teenage generation is the biggest the world has ever seen, according to a UN report released on 8 October. About half the people in the world are now less than 25 years old.
Some 1.2 billion people – nearly a fifth of all people on Earth – are adolescents between 10 and 19. This demographic bulge stems from an increase in birth rate that started two decades ago. “People were having lots of young children and there was not enough family planning,” said Thoraya Obaid,…
