The combined consumer spending of Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore could nearly double between 2017 and 2030, The Business Times reports, quoting DBS. Demographics is one of the “big picture” themes that has an enormous impact on the world’s economic growth patterns. And in the coming decades, it is going to drive growth in a number of countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), according to Stansberry Churchouse research. Economists see another solid year for growth in Southeast Asia, with the six main economies largely keeping up the gains from a trade-fueled year in 2017, Bloomberg reports