Compare the population challenges of different countries and describe some possible solutions.
Global population is the term used to describe the total amount of humans existing on Earth. By 2050, the global population is estimated by the United Nations to increase to between 8.3 and 10.9 billion. However, challenges resulting from global population include the aging of population and the production of food that fluctuate in different countries. This essay will consider how these two major challenges affect diverse countries and the solutions that have been proposed.
The problem of an aging population growth affects all countries. Population aging is happening at different rates in different nations. However, civilizations are aging generally …show more content…
The countries that are experiencing demographic decline include Russia, Japan and Austria. In 1991, Russia’s population was below 7 million. As for Japan, the very last Japanese baby was predicted by an expert to be born in the year 2959. The ideal family size for young Austrian women is less than two children which is enough to replace themselves but not their spouses.
Different solutions are anticipated to deal with the challenges of aging population. Therefore, governments must raise retirement age and spend more money on retirees with a long retirement. However, different countries have different approaches to the declining rate of population growth. For example, developed countries such as Singapore and the U.S government encourages women to have more children by proposing paid maternity leave and other enticements, while in the U.S they encourage …show more content…
(2011). Can we feed the world and sustain the planet? Scientific American, 305(5). 60-65.
Kapteyn, A. (2010). What can we learn from (and about) global aging? Demography, 47(1), S191-S209.
Longman, P. (2010). Global aging. Foreign Policy, 182, 52-58.
Philip, G., Jason, M., Terrence, M., Timothy K.M. & Vernon, R. (2014). A Bounds Analysis of World Food Futures: Global Agriculture Through to 2050. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 58, 571-589.
Pimental, D., Huang, X., Cordova, A. & Pimental, M. (1997). Impact of Population growth on food supplies and environment. Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 19 (1),
Global population is the term used to describe the total amount of humans existing on Earth. By 2050, the global population is estimated by the United Nations to increase to between 8.3 and 10.9 billion. However, challenges resulting from global population include the aging of population and the production of food that fluctuate in different countries. This essay will consider how these two major challenges affect diverse countries and the solutions that have been proposed.
The problem of an aging population growth affects all countries. Population aging is happening at different rates in different nations. However, civilizations are aging generally …show more content…
The countries that are experiencing demographic decline include Russia, Japan and Austria. In 1991, Russia’s population was below 7 million. As for Japan, the very last Japanese baby was predicted by an expert to be born in the year 2959. The ideal family size for young Austrian women is less than two children which is enough to replace themselves but not their spouses.
Different solutions are anticipated to deal with the challenges of aging population. Therefore, governments must raise retirement age and spend more money on retirees with a long retirement. However, different countries have different approaches to the declining rate of population growth. For example, developed countries such as Singapore and the U.S government encourages women to have more children by proposing paid maternity leave and other enticements, while in the U.S they encourage …show more content…
(2011). Can we feed the world and sustain the planet? Scientific American, 305(5). 60-65.
Kapteyn, A. (2010). What can we learn from (and about) global aging? Demography, 47(1), S191-S209.
Longman, P. (2010). Global aging. Foreign Policy, 182, 52-58.
Philip, G., Jason, M., Terrence, M., Timothy K.M. & Vernon, R. (2014). A Bounds Analysis of World Food Futures: Global Agriculture Through to 2050. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 58, 571-589.
Pimental, D., Huang, X., Cordova, A. & Pimental, M. (1997). Impact of Population growth on food supplies and environment. Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 19 (1),