Demographic contextual framework of higher education in Honduras

Abstract

The main objective of this report is to make a general overview of the behavior of demography dynamics, which includes past, present, and future. It describes the general changes of population included in demographic transition theory and its impact on the population's age structure, which will lead to sudden changes magnified in the threshold of demographic bonus.

This phenomenon is an element of vital importance in that it becomes demography's contribution to the economy. In the following years it will start an increase of people in age of employment unlike any other in this country and it will decrease the demographic dependency rates to very low values as well. Taking advantage of this situation with quick actions of public politics, profit can be made out of it.

In the matter of demographic changes within special groups, being the health or the education sectors, the flow of financial resources will shift to different groups that at present are not as prioritized. Within groups pertaining to education, the population with age of tertiary education will rise to elevated effective numbers in the next decades that will demand on educational services.