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This Research Report forms part of our series on global societal trends and their impact on the EU in 2030. This analysis is embedded within the framework of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) set up to develop a lasting framework to assess global trends and to develop policy responses across EU institutions over the next institutional cycle (2014–2019). The first phase of the project assessed the long-term, international, domestic, economic and political trends facing the European Union over the next two decades; the second phase of the project split trends into three streams, namely the economy, governance and power, and society. RAND Europe's assessment of likely global societal trends constituted 'Trend Report 2 — Society' for this second phase.

This report presents the evidence base, uncertainties and potential trajectories surrounding trends in one of the six major themes which form part of Trend Report 2 — Society, namely the growing and ageing global population. The report analyses the changing demographic profile of the world's population and major trends in this area. These trends relate chiefly to overall population growth, and population decline in Europe and, in the future, in other parts of the world.

• Chapter One

  A growing and ageing population

• Chapter Two

  Population ageing in the West, followed by the rest of the world