Sri Lanka to Bangladesh, Nepal & Indonesia, the ticking demographic time bomb bringing down govts

Decades ago, CIA social scientists working in secret discovered societies around the world were sitting on a time bomb: those which developed large male youth cohorts in the age group 17-24 were uniquely vulnerable to crime, violence and rebellion. The patterns backing this data are hundreds of years old—but we saw them during the Arab Spring, and again now in Asia. Lacking proper opportunities and prospects, the young people we count on to power economic progress can become a threat to societies. But what can be done to fix the problem—or is it already too late?