Consequences of rapidly growing population

Question 1

National income

Answer 1

A high percentage of national income will need to be spent on education and child health care.

Question 2

Active working population

Answer 2

A young population will eventually form the active working population, vital for the development of that country.

Question 3

Active cohort

Answer 3

Youthful population will soon move into, the active cohort requiring jobs, health care, houses, power and many other services. It may be that in the poorer areas of the world there are insufficient economic resources to support this.

Question 4

High dependency ratio

Answer 4

Country such as Senegal, where they have a high dependency, will have greater burden of providing support and care to the economically dependant.

Question 5

Food

Answer 5

There could be more strain on food resources, leading to over-cultivation causing famines.