The blog’s latest post for the Financial Times FT Data blog is below. February 13, 2014 2:22 pm by FT Two remarkable global demographic developments have occurred since 1950. Yet only recently have their impact on companies and the economy begun to be properly understood. Life expectancy has risen by 50 per cent since 1950 […]
Chemicals and the Economy
Women now have half the number of children compared to 1950
Demographics drive demand. Developments since 1950 are thus creating massive and unprecedented change in global demand patterns, as the chart above highlights: Fertility rates (green) have halved on a global basis, with the average woman having just 2.5 children today Life expectancy (red) has increased by 50% over the same period, to average around 70 years […]
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