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Youthful Population (LEDCs)

Advantages Disadvantages Solutions

- provides a large and cheap future workforce

- provides a growing market for manufactured products

- provides a large tax base for the country

- puts strain on education and health services

- puts strain on food supplies

- puts strain on available accommodation

- lack of available jobs in the future

1.
- attendance at secondary schools in rural areas is low leaving lots of unqualified poorly educated workers.
2.
- Disease rates amongst young children are high as the government cannot afford medicines for them, even for preventable diseases such as measles and diarrhoea.  This means Infant mortality is high.
3.
- there are lots of children who have yet to have their own children in the future the situation can only grow worse. 

- family planning

- industrialisation to provide jobs in manufacturing

 

Ageing Population (MEDCs)

Advantages Disadvantages Solutions

- A larger proportion of ageing  people can add experience to the workforce

- a growing 'grey' market for leisure and health products

- construction boom in favoured retirement locations such as the Costa del Sol (Spain).

- cost of providing pensions, health care and sheltered housing leads to increased taxes on a proportionally small workforce

- many young people are employed caring for the elderly. This harms a country's competitiveness, since they are not producing products for export.

 

- abolish state pensions

- raise retirement age

- locate retirement 'colonies' in LEDCs

- increase taxes

- sell homes of the elderly to pay for retirement care