Demographic Trends and Military Recruitment

Surprising Possibilities

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ID20139880
AuthorsGeorge H Quester (corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume35
Issue1
Publication date2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe US Army War College Quarterly Parameters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-1723 • E-ISSN: 0031-1723
PublisherUnited States Army War College Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.55540/0031-1723.2244
OpenAlexW307345100
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

T his article will attempt to project current demographic trends in the United States and abroad, along with several related determinants, a substantial distance into the future, so as to explore some possibly surprising implications for the recruitment of armed forces. The most important of these demographic factors will be the "graying" of the population, in America and all the advanced industrialized countries, as lower birthrates and longer lifespans project that a larger proportion of the total population will be above what was viewed, until recently, as the normal age for retirement. 1 In many of the advanced countries, the total of younger people will actually decline as an absolute number. In the United States and in several other advanced countries, this total will not absolutely decrease, but it will certainly decline as a percentage of the overall population. Other important demographic trends will include the worldwide shift of population to urban areas, and the continued high birthrates in many underdeveloped countries, with a bias in some areas toward preventing the birth or survival of female children

Criminology · Political science · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Psychology

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