 In many countries this time period has led to increasingly smaller families, rising income, and rising life expectancy rates.However, dramatic social changes can also occur during this time, such as increasing divorce rates, postponement of marriage, and single-person households.Recent research shows that the demographic dividend is an education-triggered dividend

Approximately 1.8 billion people between 10 and 24 years old exist in the world today; the highest total number of young people than ever before.