Following the release of the StatsSA Report Social Profile of Youth, 2009-2014 and the public debate that it generated, MISTRA in partnership with StatsSA convened a high-level roundtable discussion aimed at interrogating the macrosocial status of young people in South Africa, and the implications of this on the South Africa’s development trajectory going forward. The objective of the roundtable was to assess the macrosocial status of youth with specific reference to economic inclusion and educational attainment at tertiary level, and to link this to the fundamental question of the demographic dividend.