
The Transition Report 2025-26 looks at the implications of demographic change for rapidly ageing economies, as well as economies with young, fast-growing populations. It outlines recent demographic trends, including declining fertility rates, and presents strategies that policymakers could deploy in response. These centre on prolonging productive working lives, boosting automation and facilitating labour mobility. The analysis focuses on artificial intelligence and migration policies in the EBRD regions and beyond, as well as ways in which demographic change shapes policy preferences and societal beliefs.
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