Putting Iran’s Demographic, Economic Growth Into Perspective

Growth in population without concurrent economic growth cannot benefit the country from the so-called demographic “window of opportunity”—the period in which the working-age population is growing and the young cohort decreasing, while the old cohort is still small.
Speaking at the University of Tehran’s Faculty of Social Sciences, Masoud Nili, president’s top economic advisor, said the demographic window of opportunity would open to production and employment, only if adequate investment is available. If not, population growth would, paradoxically, have severe repercussions.