Population CASE STUDIES
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- Created on: 08-05-15 08:18
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- Managing populations
- UK - Ageing population
- Facts
- 16% of popn over 65s; ageing population
- Expected to rise to 25% by 2041
- Increasing life expectancy: 81.3 women, 76.9 men
- Baby booms in 1940s and 1960s
- Falling birth rates; fewer young people
- Problems
- Pressure on pension system
- Not enough in working-age group to pay taxes for pensions
- today 60% working age paying for 19% retired. 2030, 56% WA, 27% RA
- Not enough in working-age group to pay taxes for pensions
- Increased elderly people living in poverty
- Little/No savings and low pensions
- Pressure on health services
- Old people need more medical attention
- Pressure on pension system
- Strategies to manage
- Increased retirement age. 65 for men and 60 for women
- People will have to work for longer, increasing size of working-age
- Encouraged immigration of working-age people
- In 2004, 80% of immigrants from new EU countries, e.g. Poland, were under 34
- Encouraging birth rates
- Women won't lose out on pensions if they take career breaks fro children
- Increased retirement age. 65 for men and 60 for women
- To achieve sustainable development
- Increasing retirement age
- Helps because it doesn't increase the population
- But more jobs needed as people work for longer
- Only works if they are sustainable jobs, e.g. wind-turbine powers
- Helps because it doesn't increase the population
- Allowing immigration
- Only sustainable if people are met in a sustainable way
- Encouraging more children
- Increases the population of a country
- Increasing retirement age
- Pyramid
- Facts
- Uganda - Youthful Population
- Facts
- In 2007, 50% under 25 and 3% 65 and over
- High birth and fertility rates. 48 babies born for every 1000
- Low life expectancy; of 52 years, making youthful proportion larger
- Pyramid
- Problems
- Pressure on health services
- 6000 women die at childbirth
- HIV/AIDS spreads from mother to child
- High unemployment
- Not enough jobs when youthful popn reaches working age
- Pressure on health services
- Strategies to manage
- Encouraging use of contraceptives and family planning
- Less than 25% amongst married women
- New policies encourage this
- Many don't have access to birth control
- Since 1992, popn increase, therefore it isn't working
- Policies to combat HIV/AIDS
- Education programme called ABC Approach
- HIV infections fell from 15% to 5% in 2001
- Encouraging use of contraceptives and family planning
- To achieve sustainable development
- Encouraging contraception
- Reduces BR and overpopulation
- The country can focus on sustainable development
- Reducing the spread of diseases
- Relieves pressure on health services
- Frees up money to be used elsewhere. e.g. developing sustainable irrigation techniques for rural farming communities
- Encouraging contraception
- Facts
- UK - Ageing population
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