The hidden key to understanding economic trends

Demographics Unravelled: How Demographics Affect and Influence Every Aspect of Economics, Finance and Policy unveils the critical role that demographics—broadly understood—plays in shaping macroeconomics, investment policy, and sustainability.

Written from a macro-perspective informed by the author’s decades of focus on “people characteristics,” including gender, race, migrant status, family background, and education levels, Demographics Unravelled explores how consumers and workers affect economic variables. From growth, public debt, and inflation to unemployment, productivity, savings, and capital flows, readers will discover why no major economic indicator is insulated from the impact of demographic movement. The broader impact beyond GDP on health, longevity, inequality, sustainability and corruption is also discussed with new insights. Roy challenges several common misperceptions and hypes based on data and reasoning.

The book delivers a long-overdue correction of the oversimplification of the discussion of demographics, injecting crucial nuance and complexity into an often-overlooked area of macroeconomics. It is expected to be used as a reference text due to its extensive academic and practitioner references.

Analysts, researchers, institutional investors, real estate investors, corporate leaders, strategists, and insurance professionals will all appreciate the enduring and unique insights offered in Demographics Unravelled. The author has uncovered a robust and penetrating lens through which to view important and impactful economic trends. He persuasively demonstrates that demographics affects economics and asset prices in the short-term, medium-term and long-term, and also influences income and profits of households, firms and nations.

Discover what demographics can tell us about the economy, markets, and the future

In Demographics Unravelled, renowned Macro-Demographics expert Amlan Roy delivers an insightful and timely exploration of the impact that "people characteristics" have on national economies. Considering factors like gender, race, migrant status, family background, and education, the author delves deeply into a subject that drives market behavior and economic variables, including growth, debt, inflation, employment, and productivity. These have national and international policy implications.

In this one-of-a-kind book, you’ll discover:

• Why the study of demographics is the hidden key to understanding economic growth, asset prices, and capital flows
• How to use detailed demographics to forecast future scenarios in economics, socioeconomics, geopolitics, and the environment
• The short-, medium-, and long-term effects of consumer and worker behavior
• How understanding demographics is key to understanding health, pensions, migration, sustainability and social policies. It is intimately linked to the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN—Gender, Climate, Poverty and Inequality

Perfect for institutional investors, insurance professionals, economists, and business leaders, Demographics Unravelled will also earn a place in the libraries of academics and students studying a variety of economic disciplines and seeking a one-stop and in-depth discussion of demographics-driven macroeconomic effects.