Managing Population Change
population change and how to deal with it
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- Created on: 10-03-14 20:38
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- Managing Population Change
- LEDC population
- Limited Family Planning
- Lack of Contaception
- High Mortality rates (lots of child deaths)
- Childeren are a valuble source of labour and income
- Childeren care of younger childeren and elderly parents/ grandparents
- Tradionally or Culturally important to have large families
- Large number of young economically dependent population
- Stage 2 or stage 3 on a DTM (Demographic Transition Model)
- Case study: China One Child Policy
- Gender imbalance
- More boys then girls
- Benefits for one child couple: Free health, free education, housing priority, Longer retirement, better pensions, longer maternity leave
- Hard to control in Rural areas (country side)
- Forced abortions and sterillisations
- 0.7% population increase every year
- More female rights made
- Males marry forign brides due to a la a fall in female population
- Easy to control ion Urban areas (City)
- Some girls are KILLED, LEFT on the STREETS or left at ORPHEN HOMES
- Women must be 18 to marry and men must be 22 to marry
- MEDC population
- More Family Planning
- Wider range of contraception avalibler
- Better health care
- Better lifestyles
- Modern medicens
- Falling birth rate due to better women rights
- Increase in career opportunities for woman
- Balanced diets
- Couples choose not to have childeren
- Childeren less usefull, couples think they are too expensive
- Increased retirement age
- Elderly Population
- Rised retirement age
- More health care needed
- People live longer
- More doctors and nursing home needed
- Try to balance population with PRO-NATALIST
- Countries which adopt policies to encourage people to have children
- Try to equal elderly population and younger generation
- Less economically active population
- More economically dependent population
- As birth rate FALLS elederly population RISES as there are no younger generation to replace them
- Youthful Population
- Economically Dependent
- Require education which is very expensive as money is needed to provide facilities, teachers and reasources
- Expensive as health care needed; vaccines for diseases and other medication
- Education about family planning and contriception
- Children will reach child bearing age and will need education
- How to deal with population change
- People encouraged to save money for their retirement age
- Increase in retirement age
- Increased number of falicities, eg nursing homes
- Encouragement of skilled and unskilled migrants
- LEDC population
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