Essay

Around the world, there are many countries that are at vastly different points in their developmental stages.  These different stages are affected by these countries’ health care and economic positions. Some countries on both ends of the spectrum can face problems due to their population position.  Problems are not only faced by countries that are at the beginning of the model, where their economies are weak, and death rates are high, but there are problems with the population where there is good healthcare and the economy is powerful.  Two examples of this would be countries A and B. Both of these countries are on opposite sides of the population pyramid, and they both face problems, and there are possible solutions to the problems that they may face.  

Country A’s population pyramid shows a large pre-reproductive population with a smaller aging population.  This population pyramid shows that this country may be in stage two. This is because of the fact that they have very high birth rates in their nation, but the deaths are starting to decrease because there is a slightly larger elderly population.  There are several problems that can be faced by this country with the state that it is in. One of these could be overpopulation. Overpopulation could be a problem for this nation depending on the amount of land and resources that it has available to it.  Overpopulation will continue to happen in this country as more people live longer, and move into their reproductive years to begin to have children of their own.

Country B’s population pyramid shows it to begin to be in stage 4 or be at the beginning of stage 5.  This is shown through the fact that there are nearly as many young people as old people. In this stage of the model, the quality of living has gone way up, as has education and health care.  This allows people to become higher educated, and become more interested and committed to leading a career than building a family. This can also cause problems for a country based on its population.  This can cause an underpopulation of young people. It is necessary for a country to have a fair amount of young people because a nation that contains only elderly people, or people of a retiring age cannot do the grunt work of building roads.  Also, the country may not have enough young people to take care of the elderly. There is an equal amount of problems with having a population that increases too rapidly as well as one that begins to decrease.

There are solutions to these problems, although they are not instant fixes they could eventually help to fix these country’s population issues.  A fix to begin to slow down the population growth of country A would perhaps be to institute a law that only allows each family to have one or maybe two children.  Another solution that could help Nation A would be a strong urbanization movement or getting people to move into more urban areas. This could help the country to decrease its population growth because more people would have smaller living areas and it would not be necessary to have large families to work the farm, also more women could get in the workforce when they live closer to the urbanized area closer to education sources.  These solutions to attempt to slow down the population growth of nation A.

Similar to Nation A there are several fixes to the country that could help to raise the population growth over time.  These include offering incentives to families to have more children. These could include large tax breaks or other government help until the population got back to where it needs to be.  This solution would only help to grow the population with its RNI. the population could also be grown through immigration. The country could go to other nations and attempt to influence them to send young able-bodied people and their families to help do more of the grunt work that the country’s own aging population cannot do.  

These two countries are distinctly different although they both face problems regarding there population.  Country A has exponential growth and country B can be facing a declining population. Although there are not instant fixes there are some fixes that could help to get these nations under control.  For country A a law could be instituted, and an urbanization movement could be started. For country B, with a declining population, An immigration movement or government incentives to people could help to move the population up. These countries can be helped to get there populations back on track.