Signal Report names Japan, South Korea and China as rapidly ageing while Africa's young cohort comes of age

Summary

This signal comes from the report's discussion of demographic shifts as one of the conditions shaping geotechnomics. It names Japan, South Korea and China as countries whose populations are ageing rapidly. At the same time, a large generation of young people is coming of age across the African continent. The report expects these contrasting trends to affect individual states' economic success, social cohesion and political stability. It also suggests they could reshape global patterns of trade and migration. Demographic divergence is thus treated as a structural force that interacts with geopolitics, technology and economics.