Our Ever Aging Population and the Problems That Causes

  1. A large portion of our population has reached 65 and older, as longevity in ones life is predominantly viewed as a positive it does bring along many socioeconomic issues. The main issues to an older globe population are as followed, the enormous  of money going towards caring for the elderly, maintaining a labor force, as well as structure pension systems.The more developed countries in the world have been aging for a while now so they are getting more acclimated to how to assess these issuesOn the other hand less- developed or developing countries are getting older before they are getting richer or strengthening their economy.Of the more developed countries the US is experiencing less of a problem than others due to the highly above average fertility rates among our immigrant population.Relating to that last sentence on another note, our immigrant population is whats stabilizing our population in a way, However that doesn’t mean we aren’t already experiencing backlash from the boomer generation and that also doesn’t necessarily mean the backlash will get worse; but that is the reason our fertility rates are better than the many developed countries.All inhabited continents fertility rates are at lower levels (not necessarily a bad thing), however fertility rates in many countries in Africa are fairly steady and may have gone up.This being because of the limited improvement women's education rights.In some instances the government has played a more direct role in fertility such as in Japan Italy China and India putting a limit on how many children a person can produce.


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