http://www.iaeme.com/IJMET/index.asp 187 editor@iaeme.com International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology (IJMET) Volume 10, Issue 02, February 2019, pp. 187–197, Article ID: IJMET_10_02_022 Available online at http://www.iaeme.com/ijmet/issues.asp?JType=IJMET&VType=10&IType=2 ISSN Print: 0976-6340 and ISSN Online: 0976-6359 © IAEME Publication Scopus Indexed SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS: WHERE IS THE PLACE OF DEMOGRAPHY? A POSITION PAPER ON DEMOGRAPHY AND STEM *Emmanuel O. Amoo, Paul O. Adekola, Adebanke Olawole-Isaac, Gbemisola W. Samuel, Moses A. Akanbi Demography and Social Statistics, College of Business and Social Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. Mofoluwake P Ajayi Department of Sociology, College of Business and Social Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria Olasunmbo Olaoluwa Agboola Department of Mathematics, College of Science and Technology, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria *Correspondence Author E-mail: emma.amoo@covenantuniversity.edu.ng ABSTRACT The presentation is a position paper on the interconnections between the education policy, curriculum choices on science, technology, engineering and mathematics and the place of demography. The study is aggregate of thoughts complemented with archival review of existing literature and empirical analysis on admission trends and population growth. It was also firstly presented in one of the several departmental seminars. The study emphasised that demographic trends and growth are the main engine for technological progress. The study portrays demographic trends as crucial engine for technological progress and also works as the drivers of human capital towards achievement of economic prosperity. The result revealed wider gender gap that range from 41.4% to 51.5% in both pre-and post- STEM policy, though it finally stablised at 41.5% in 2009. The study positioned demographers as the conduit for delivery of optimum population or population explosion via assisted fertility technology e.g. in-vitro fertilization (IVF), preimplantation genetic diagnosis, human reproductive cloning, fetal DNA in maternal plasma, and genetic diagnosis). Therefore, while the pursuit of science, technology, engineering and mathematics is crucial for growth, the neglect of the sources of supply of human drivers or the demographic-based pull-and-push factors could engender wobbling and crawling structure of technological advancement. The authors however recommends adequate knowledge of these interplays for plausible