Question

5. 12.5 pts) Study the age structures below and answer the following questions. Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Expanding Rapidly Guatemala Nigeria Saudi Arabia Prereproductive ages 0-14 Expanding Slowly Stable Japan Declining Germany United States Italy Greece Bulgaria Russia Australia China Reproductive ages Postreproductive ages 45–85+ 15-44 a. What do you predi for future population growth of Niger US, and Germany? b. As a politician, how would you prepare for future societal needs in Nigeria, US, Japan and Germany?

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Answer 1

(A). Nigeria: The population will grow rapidly, as we can see that it has high population of pre-productive/reproductive ages compared to the post-reproductive ages.

US:    The population will grow, yes but slowly, as we can see that it has high population of pre-productive/reproductive ages compared to the post-reproductive ages. This population growth will be less than Nigeria.

Japan: There will not much overall difference in the japan population, as we can see the pre-productive/reproductive people are almost equal to post-reprodcutive group of people.

Germany: The overall population will decrease as we can see the post-reproductive group goes way ahead when compared to pre-reproductive/reproductive ages.

(B): when we talk of societal needs, what we need for basic living is food, water, health, job, housing and clothing, security, and transport.

so according to this:

Nigeria & US, would need increase food and water productivity as they will have a increase in young population which will need more food and water. Increase in food production will also give jobs which will be needed. The health industry also upgraded for this type of young population. This huge population will need jobs, and for job they need transport, so it will also be upgraded.

Japan: As the population would be near about stable then existing policies would be fair enough for the future of the country. But as a politician they need to update the policies for future technology.

Germany; it has to be invest heavily in health sector because in long run their will be increased aged population, also they had to invest in awareness for a balanced society towards educating young people in their reproductive age group to make families. Financial assistance can be provided to reproductive age group people so that the country can have a younger population.