Migration will be win-win for world, finds World Bank report

This Global Monitoring Report is in partnership between the IMF and the World Bank, with contributions from OECD and multilateral development banks. The topic arose in the research department, partly because over the last 30 years we haven’t had a World Bank report on demography. Since then, demographic trends have changed dramatically. Global population used to grow a few decades ago at 2%, now it’s 1%, and by 2050 it will be 0.5%. The world population is ageing a record speeds, never seen before. Global working age population as a share of the total population has reached a maximum of 66% in 2012 and is now declining. And the total number of children around the world is stabilising at around 2 billion. More...