The demographic dividend effort index (DDEI) is a robust tool that takes researchers, policymakers, advocates, service provides and program implementers through a process of assessing local efforts in high-impact policies and programs. The DEl fosters measurements,...

Considering the health and socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19, and its close relationship with policies that enable a DD-favorable policy environment, this DDEI has integrated a module to assess the resilience and sustainability of systems in each sector. The scoring...

Cultivating the Demographic Dividend Two decades after its inception, the debate on demographic dividends has come to oppose two contending views. On one side are the ultra-skeptics who dismiss dividends on ideological, methodological or empirical grounds. These...

The Gates Institute publishes Demographic Dividend Quarterly, which provides news and updates to the demographic dividend community. Read the February 2019 issue, with highlights from the 5th International Conference on Family Planning here.

January 30, 2019-To help explain the concept of the DD, the Gates Institute developed a 2-minute animated video that highlights the crucial components a country needs to put in place in order to harness the DD. Building on various existing DD resources, mainly from...

January 30, 2019–The theme of the 5th International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), which was held in Kigali, Rwanda, in November 2018 was “Investing for a Lifetime of Returns.” The conference was marked by a number of presentations, interactive sessions and...