Young Population

Impacts of a Young Population

Positive

Negative

Economical:

In the future there will be more women to have children, which will

put more pressure on the health service.

All of the young people will need to be educated, and providing

schools and teachers is expensive. All of the resources needed for the lessons

are costly to buy.

The young children will need vaccinations so that they won’t get

diseases and die. This is expensive for a country to provide.

There would be a future aging population.

Increased poverty as more people are born into families that are

already poor.

More young people with jobs and shorter employment hours.

Not enough jobs for all the people in the country so people are

unemployed.

Provides a growing market for economic products.

Political:

The government will have to decide to either lower pensions or to

have worse education services, due to funds being short.

A future aging population.

Government focuses on policies that are important to the young.

Pensions become less important to the government.

The government has to make policies to bring population growth under

control.

Provides a large tax base for the country.

Large and cheap future workforce.

Social:

Healthcare and housing services have a high pressure on them to

supply.

The children would have to work to support their large families.

People are forced to live in make-shift housing as there isn’t

enough housing for everyone.

There could be a famine due to there being not enough workers in the

fields to provide for all the children.

Lack of available jobs in future.

High infant mortality

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