Essay on Population Demographics

The article discusses how Italy economists and sociologist have been talking about the ratio of the elderly to the young. The have few younger workers that will have to pay social security contributions for every growing number of longer-living elderly. The massive number of eastern Europeans, African and Asia immigrates have flooded into Italy helping with this serious problem. In the past the Italian government was relented to have immigrates but now they are the reason for the rising birthrates. Italian women especially working women are reluctant to have even one, let alone a second child due to the global recession. Incentives are offered for women who have a child.

In order to determine which stage of the Demographic Transition a country is in, you must know what the demographic transition is, what each stage is and how to know if a country is in that stage. The Demographic Transition is a process of change in a society’s population. Stage 1 of the demographic transition is low population growth. If a country is in stage one of the demographic transition that country would have a high Crude Birth Rate(CBR) and a high Crude Death Rate(CDR) that together would produce a low natural increase. Stage 2 of the demographic transition is high growth. If a country is in stage two of the demographic transition, the country would have a declining CDR and a very high CBR that together would produce a high natural

Over the past years, there has been an exceptionally large national increase which has caused several population issues. These issues include: homelessness, deforestation and more fields being used to make space for shops and houses disrupting the biodiversity growth. Problems like this are caused when there is an abnormal increase in the birth rate where more babies are born; this is also known as a ‘baby boom’. This can occur when nations have more children as a whole and events like this normally takes place after an achievement – an example being when we won the World War Two. The country was relieved that the fighting was over so their instantly celebrated which is why more children were born. In the last 50 years alone, the population has doubled showing just how fast the population is actually growing and even though it may seem fortunate that there are less recorded deaths, this makes the Economical

Chapter one “Population” explains how population changed through the years and what caused the population explosion. One of the reasons was a reduction of death rate after World War II due to being able to stop some diseases. Also, people in less developed countries believe in having more children, often due to religion or tradition. More children provide more wealth. The chapter is explaining how population growth affects development. When the growth is to rapid it causes that most of the population in a country is nonproductive, therefore more resources are needed to maintain a country. On the other hand, if the growth is too low, also more funds are needed to support older part of population. There is no good answer to how fast population

The demographic transition is a three-stage model of population growth in Europe. In the first stage there is a stable population because birth and death rates are both high. The second stage happens as mortality rates begin to slowly decline, but birth rates stay high. When this stage happens, there is fast population growth. During the third stage, the population is more stable as both birth and death rates are low and are more or less balanced. In more recent years, a fourth stage as been brought on by Anti-Malthusians. During this stage, population shrinkage occurs because the deaths begin to outnumber the births. Europe provides a great example to the theory of demographic transition. After speedy population growth of stage two, Europe settled at stage three with a stable population. It is currently in stage four with a shrinking population. In most European nations there are lesser births than deaths which could ultimately create other social problems.

Once a person has a baby that doesn't guarantee that the baby will live. With better technology we have birth control methods and abortions for people who don't have babies. People who do want to have babies have the risk of the baby dying from disease. "Millions of babies have died, a fraction from AIDS, more from malaria, pneumonia, even measles. More millions have been aborted." So people are having less children at higher ages combined with the fact that the baby can die from disease. That can dramatically lower the birth rate and it has because instead of the predicted 12 billion by 2050 only 9 billion is expected by 2050. That's means in a few decades 3 billion

The first stage of the demographic transition is called pre-industrial. In this stage, the population is stable. The birth and death rates are both high. The death rates are at a high due to the increase of disease, poor medical and personal hygiene care along with the limited supplies of food. With the death rates being high, people are having more babies to help with mortality rates being so high. With the birth and death rates being equal, the population growth stays at a zero.

The three Countries I chose to talk about are, Afghanistan , China, And United States. I chose these places because they are in different regions of the world, with different development levels and population. Taking a look at the PRB I’ve noticed some great differences between these countries. Afghanistan has a high and stable birth rates, but its still low in population compared to the other countries, this is due to a high mortality rate of infants along with, 45% of its population under the age of 15 and 2% of the age of 65. I believe this to be a result of lack of resources and medicines of this low developed country, putting it in the second stage of demographic transition.

First of all, high poverty rates mean less education regarding family planning and less access to birth control methods. Secondly, high poverty rates might also encourage families to have more children that will eventually provide supplemental income or physical labor (Merrick). So population growth cannot be stabilized without addressing problems of poverty and addressing problems of poverty will mostly likely aid in population stabilization. Figure 1 and 2 in the Appendix show a visual representation of the poorest countries and the countries with the highest fertility rates. Focusing on the area of Africa, it is evident that the poorest countries also have the highest fertility rates.

Demographic transition is the process by which a nation/country moves from high birth rate and high death rates to low birth and low death rates as the growth population in the interim (Weeks, 2005). Some of the nations that have gone through this transitions are; Canada, Germany, United States and England. The demographic transition to an industrialized society is harmful to the environment. Industrialized countries also have the largest ecological and carbon footprint comparative to developing/non-industrialized nations. Nevertheless, demographic transitions have some notable advantages. Countries that have gone through demographic transitions have low birth and death rates. Citizens in

These progressions lead to the control of sicknesses, the creation of more nourishment, better employments, and enhanced restorative consideration and sanitation. As the passing rates diminish, the conception rates stay high on the grounds that individuals are still usual to creating more youngsters, and amid this stage they have more nourishment and assets to help bigger families. As an issue of the declining passing rates and high conception rates, the human populace will increment at a fast

Some demographers believe that the demographic transition will happen to countries everywhere. With urbanization and modernization, they claim rates of natural increase will naturally fall. This is needed most, of course, in much of Asia, Africa, and Latin America where there is great poverty and rapid population growth. Most of the developed world has gone through the transition, and population in the wealthier countries is nearly stable. Detractors of this argument point out that those poorer countries today are very different from the wealthy ones during their early stages of economic growth. They also say the political and economic environment today also work to the disadvantage of the poor

Since World War II, Italian society has profoundly changed, with a significant impact on daily life. One of the main elements of change is the more visible role women play in society outside the home, such as increased participation in higher education and various professions. One aspect of this changed role is that Italy records one of the lowest average numbers of children per woman in the world, as well as some of the lowest birth and fertility rates. (Brittanica Online Encyclopedia)

As you can see, the population has been increasing rapidly over the last 10 years, very much so, due to the large amount of immigrants. Also due to the large amounts of immigrants, the fertility rates would probably increase because the most countries that the immigrants come from have very high fertility rates.

This is the second stage of the Theory of Demographic Transition. In this stage, birth rate does not come down from the High Stationary Stage but death rate gets very much declined, which triggers very rapid growth in the population change. In this stage, the nation provides the better public health services to the people so that the people will not depart from the life so rapidly, and the declining in infant