BI Fact Sheets - POPULATION DYNAMICS AND SOCIAL PROTECTION - How Social Protection Systems

Yet despite the great progress The population dynamics vary from region The population of sub-Saharan Africa is made, only 13.7 percent of the popula- to region in sub-Saharan Africa – with projected to increase from 1.2 billion to tion of sub-Saharan Africa receives at corresponding differences in the demands 2.1 billion by 2050.1 Today, women in the least one social protection benefit.3 A placed. [...] On the one hand, the specific In addition, limited administrative capacity population dynamics of each country – the Social protection systems can reduce the and insufficient financing for social systems current population structure and future risk of poverty, strengthen the provision of are among the biggest challenges. [...] To better capitalise on the to Population Dynamics same household as their grandchildren and effects and possibilities at the intersection and Social Protection help finance their education. [...] helps to align social protection systems women aged between 30 and 45 have con- with the population dynamics in sciously decided to have fewer children be- … pay more attention to the potential Nigeria – a growing number of elderly cause they know that the state will support of social protection measures to acceler- people. [...] *Put simply, the demographic dividend is the potential for an economic boost that can result from shifts in a population’s age structure — when the share of the working-age population (15–64) is considerably larger than the non-working-age population of young and elderly dependents (14 and younger, and 65 and older).