Population

Question 1

Birth rate

Answer 1

The number of births per 1000 per year.

Question 2

Death rate

Answer 2

The number of deaths per 1000 per year.

Question 3

Encourages high death rates

Answer 3

Ageing population, money, natural disasters

Question 4

Encourage low death rates

Answer 4

Health care is good, low disease chance, job opportunities.

Question 5

Encourage high birth rates

Answer 5

Family planning, income of money, tradition of family name, poor health care.

Question 6

Encourage low birth rates

Answer 6

Cultural pressure, limited amount of children per family, expense of children, women having careers.

Question 7

What is a HIC?

Answer 7

A high income country (rich country.

Question 8

What is a LIC

Answer 8

A low income country (poor country.

Question 9

Example of HIC

Answer 9

Japan, Australia, Europe, Germany, France, UK, Canada.

Question 10

Example of LIC

Answer 10

Nigeria, Algeria.

Question 11

What is the young dependence?

Answer 11

The young dependence is from 0-18/19 years old as you rely of your parents.

Question 12

What is the economically active?

Answer 12

The are the people who work and pay taxes and get wages.

Question 13

What are the old dependence?

Answer 13

The people that are retired and that live in a nursing home.

Question 14

What is a pension?

Answer 14

A pension is what the government gives old people when they retire as money from their savings and/or taxes.

Question 15

What is a life expectancy?

Answer 15

This is what the life span that people in a country will live until.

Question 16

Ageing population is what?

Answer 16

When their is more old dependence then economically active people.

Question 17

Bad things about aging population (4)

Answer 17

1. More taxes are needed to pay their pensions
2. Less people working so tax will go up
3. more nursing home will have to be built and that involves money from the government.
4. Less children because people will need to be working so they don’t move

Question 18

What happens if we raise tax to insure health care for the elderly? (Cons)

Answer 18

1. The working people will have to work harder to make more money to live in that country.
2. People might migrate because it will be too expensive
3. Less children as things will already be expensive

Question 19

What happens if we raise tax to insure health care for the elderly? (Pros)

Answer 19

1. People will have a longer life expectancy
2. People will have more money when they retire
3. The working people will live more comfortably once retired

Question 20

What happens if a country incentives people to have children, make offers/money help? (Cons)

Answer 20

1. People might get greedy
2. Population over load
3. Economically will be paying a lot since the young and old dependence will be too much.

Question 21

What happens if a country incentives people to have children, make offers/money help? (Pros)

Answer 21

1. The population will increase
2. People will get discounts or money
3. In 20 years the economically active people will be more so taxes will reduce.

Question 22

What happens is a country attracts more workers? (Cons)

Answer 22

1. In the future they will get old
2. Spend money for people to migrate
3. Managing culture

Question 23

What happens is a country attracts more workers? (Pros)

Answer 23

1. More people working
2. More people to pay tax
3. Tax could go down
4. More new jobs and working places

Question 24

What happens if the retirement age went up? (Cons)

Answer 24

1. It will upset older people because they have to wait longer
2. Jobs might be hard to find for younger people
3. Could over work people and could lead to harm

Question 25

What happens if the retirement age went up? (Pros)

Answer 25

1. More tax income
2. More working people
3. Spend more money on hospitals and monuments as tourist attractions

Question 26

If a population pyramid is big at the bottom and small at the top, is it an HIC or a LIC?

Answer 26

This country would be an LIC as the birth rate will be high and the death rate will be high as they need more people working and bad health care.