We must reap benefits of the demographic dividend
Bangladesh is passing through a time of demographic dividend for the time being. Every nation witnesses this demographic dividend situation only once. Some opine that a nation witnesses a demographic dividend situation once every thousand years. The nations that can utilize the demographic dividend in a planned way, they are the ones who reach the peak of economic and social development. Demographic dividend refers to a situation where a country’s total population’s two-third or more is of the age between 18 and 60 years. That means the working age population’s ratio is higher, and this situation is called demographic dividend; it can also be referred to as the number of working age people being higher than that of children and elderly in a population.