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Impacts

of a young population: (gsgsgs=bad impacts…gsgsgs=

positive impacts)

Social-

·

Services like healthcare and education

can’t cope with the rapid increase

·

Children have to work to help support

their large families

·

There aren’t enough houses for

everyone, so people are forced to live in makeshift houses

·

There are food shortages if the

country can’t grow or import enough food

Economical-

·

Young

children need health care - for example, immunisations. This is expensive for a

country to provide.

·

Young

people need to be educated - providing schools and teachers are expensive.

Resources for lessons are difficult to access, and costly to buy.

·

In the

future, more children will reach child bearing age, putting more pressure on

the health service.

·

There’s

increased poverty because more people are born into families that are already

poor and have no jobs

·

More young

people working means staff with short hours

·

There

would be a future aging population

·

There is

enough young people to support the people who are relying on taxes/retired

Political-

·

Government

are not able to finance growing population or provide work for them

·

The

government has to make policies to bring population growth under control

·

There

would be a future aging population

·

Less

retired people depending on tax benefits so the government don’t have to pay

out money

·

There are

fewer older people so pensions become less important to the government

·

Most of

the population is made up of young people so the government focuses on policies

important to the young.

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