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3 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Demography.

  • Demographic window — The period when a population’s working-age share is unusually high relative to dependent young and older groups, creating potential for a demographic dividend.
  • Gross reproduction rate — Summarize a period's age-specific fertility and sex ratio as the expected number of daughters in a synthetic female cohort that experiences those rates and no mortality through the reproductive ages.
  • Life expectancy — The expected number of remaining years of life at a specified age under a cohort’s realized mortality or a period life table’s age-specific mortality rates.