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Ageing Populations
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- 1How does an ageing population occur?Fewer people are being born and people are living longer
- 2Why is it there are more people who are dependent in an ageing population?Because older people are supported by the working population
- 3What economic effects does a higher proportion of people being dependent have on a country?1) The working population pay taxes, some of which the government uses to pay for older people and for services like retirement homes and hospitals
2) The economy of the country would grow more slowly- less money is being spent on things to help the country grow and more on things that don't help the country grow, like retirement homes - 4Give four social effects of a high proportion of people being dependent.1) Health care services are stretched more as older people need more medical care
2) People will spend more time looking after family members
3) People will have fewer children as they cant afford lots of children with they have dependent older relatives
4) The more older people there are, the less money will be in pensions - 5Give four ways governments can cope with an ageing population.1) Encourage larger families
2) Encourage immigration of younger people
3) Raise the retirement age
4) Raise taxes - 6How does encouraging larger family's combat ageing populations?It increases the amount of younger people- when they start work there will be a larger working population to pay taxes etc.
- 7How does encouraging immigration of younger people help combat ageing populations?It increases the working population so there are more people paying taxes, supporting ageing population
- 8How does raising the retirement age help combat an ageing population?People stay in work longer and contribute to a state pension and personal pensions for longer. They will also claim personal pension for less time
- 9How does raising taxes help combat an ageing population?It would increase the amount of money available to support the ageing population
- 10Why would increasing family sizes and immigration not be good?Because they don't help towards sustainable development because they increase the population size