For decades global discussions focused on population growth urban expansion and youth driven markets. That narrative is now reversing. Across large parts of the world populations are aging birth rates are falling and entire societies are entering a phase of demographic contraction. This shift is not sudden but its consequences are accelerating. What once looked like a distant statistical trend is becoming a defining force shaping economies political systems national security and global power balances.
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