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demographics. Philip Atkinson. Demographic facts and their trends can impact you and your business as we climb out of the recession?. If you understand demographic shifts, you can predict how economies can recover.
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demographics Philip Atkinson
Demographic facts and their trends can impact you and your business as we climb out of the recession?
If you understand demographic shifts, you can predict how economies can recover
If you isolate the most important trends and shifts you can predict business growth
Demographic shifts in the world economy will impact our relative economic growth
You will have more control of your future if you study consumption amongst demographic groups
By studying population growth we can regulate demand for services
By isolating the core “herd” values and behaviours of these groups, we can help stimulate growth in consumption
By researching Millennials you will be in control of your future and your business
If you are one in a million in China, there are 1,300 people just like you
China will soon be the No 1 English speaking country in the world
The 25% of India’s population with the highest IQ’s, are greater than the total population of the USA
India and China have more than 100 x IT graduates per year than the UK and Europe together
The US Department of Labour estimates that today’s students will have 10-14 Jobs by the age of 38
1 in 4 workers has been with their current employer for less than a year…
If MySpace were a country, it would be the 5th largest in the world • (somewhere between Brazil and Indonesia)
What digital challenges will your business have to overcome to maximise emotional and social networking with your core constituents?
The No 1 ranked country in Broadband • Internet penetration is Bermuda • No 19 is USA • No 22 is Japan
Today, the number of daily text messages exceeds the number of people on the planet
The number of years it took to reach a market audience of 50 million…
There are over 500,000 words in the • English dictionary • (that is 5 times as many as in the time when Chaucer was writing)
A week of news in the Times has more information than a 19th century person was likely to have received in their lifetime
It is estimated that 4 Exabyte's of information will be generated this year • This is more than in all the previous 5,000 years
The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years…
..for students studying a 4 year degree, this means that 50% of what they learn in their 1st year will be outdated by their 3rd
NTT of Japan has successfully tested a fibre optic cable that pushes 14 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fibre…
..that’s the equivalent of 2660 CD’s or 210 million phone calls every second