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With great demographics comes great power
Nicholas Eberstadt
发表日期2019-06-11
出版年2019
语种英语
摘要Demographics may not be destiny, but for students of geopolitics, they come close. Although conventional measures of economic and military power often receive more attention, few factors influence the long-term competition between great powers as much as changes in the size, capabilities, and characteristics of national populations. The United States is a case in point. In 1850, the United States was home to some 23 million people, 13 million fewer than France. Today, the U.S. population is close to 330 million, larger than the British, Dutch, French, German, and Italian populations combined. For more than a century, the United States has had the world’s largest skilled work force, and by measures such as mean years of adult schooling, it has long had among the world’s most highly educated populations. These favorable demographic fundamentals, more than geography or natural resources, explain why the United States emerged as the world’s preeminent economic and military power after World War II—and why it still occupies that position today. Yet past performance is no guarantee of future results. Thanks in large part to demographics, rival states such as China have become genuine great-power competitors over the past few decades. The United States, meanwhile, has eroded or squandered its demographic edge in a number of ways, even as its traditional allies in Europe and Asia have struggled with population stagnation or decline. So far, the damage to U.S. power has been limited by the fact that the United States’ main geopolitical rivals face serious demographic problems of their own. Gazing further into the future, however, population growth and rising levels of education may propel new countries toward great-power status. Continue reading here.
主题Foreign and Defense Policy ; Asia ; Economic Development ; Europe and Eurasia ; India/Afghanistan/Pakistan
标签alliance ; China ; Demographic change ; Demographics ; population ; Population growth ; Russia
URLhttps://www.aei.org/articles/great-demographics-great-power/
来源智库American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/265977
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Nicholas Eberstadt. With great demographics comes great power. 2019.
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