Geography - Population

LEDCs

High Birth Rate:

• Tradition to have larger families
• More to look after them when elderly
• High infant mortality rate
• Needed for labour
• Little education
• Little contraception

High Death Rate:

• Poor health care
• Famine
• Poor hygiene
• War
• Poor water supply

MEDCs 

Low Birth Rate:

• More contaception
• Women waiting longer to have children to persue a career
• Lower mortality rate

Low death rate:

• Better health care 
• Pensions
• Carers
• Better hygiene
• Baby boom in 1940s

MEDCs - Ageing Population

Advantages        Disadvantages

- Voluntary workers - burden for young to look after them

- Businesses flourish - spend governments money:
  pensions, transport, healthcare
- Childcare

- Increased job opertunities in health - Strain on housing

LEDCs - Young Population

Disadvantages

- not enough food to feed everyone
- overcrowding causing disease to spread more quickly

China

Late Long and Few - Have children later and longer gaps between them. Fertility rate fell, but population still growing
 

One Child Policy - 
If you only have one child: longer maternity leave, better housing, free education

If you have more than one child: fined part of income, no benefits

Changes: Rural areas - more than one if first born is a girl or has a disability

If both parents are only children/1 parent has a disability = can have 2 children
 

Migration Laws - tight migration laws so hardly any people migrate there and increase population