Not enough workers to take full advantage of the natural resources available
less people to care for and educate
better health care as less to go round
Australia is a country with a lack of water,
having underpopulation slows and allows more
time for finding solution to this problem
If a country has a declining population, it
could end up with too many people needing
pensions and too few workers to pay taxes.
It is not sustainable.
Relies on foreign immigration
and investors e.g. foreign mining
companies
Investors will not want to invest during an
economic crisis like that of 2008 and the
1970's
This will lower the countries economy as less money is going through