Population is becoming the world’s most important strategic resource

For decades, discussions of national power focused on military strength, energy resources, geography and economic output. Governments measured their influence through the size of their armed forces, the reach of their economies or the strategic value of their territory. Yet one of the most important drivers of national power is increasingly receiving renewed attention: demography. Population trends are often treated as social or economic concerns, but they are equally matters of national security.

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