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youth bulge: a standalone construct

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youth bulge1 CONSTRUCTYouth bulgeURDAL · 2006

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Political demography

An outsized cohort of young adults

A youth bulge is an age structure in which young adults make up an unusually large share of the adult population, typically produced when mortality falls before fertility does and a large birth cohort reaches its late teens and twenties. In political demography the term carries the hypothesis that such cohorts, when they meet weak labour markets and limited political openings, raise the risk of unrest and political violence. Urdal's 2006 A clash of generations? Youth bulges and political violence tested the claim cross-nationally and found a modest association conditional on economic and institutional context. The referent is a feature of a population's age composition and its proposed social consequences, not an individual trait.[1]

Unit
The share of young adults (e.g. ages 15–24) among the adult population
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Measured as the proportion of young adults among those aged 15 and over, often the 15–24 share

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References

  1. Urdal, H. (2006). A clash of generations? Youth bulges and political violence. International Studies Quarterly, 50(3), 607–629. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2006.00416.x

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