Describe and explain the economic and social costs and benefits of ageing and youthful populations - page 3
Keywords: Ageing Populations
By 4stuchfi on 01/10/2008
Level: A Level (Year 13)
Page Number: 3 of 3 pages: 1 2 3These children do not cost money like they do in MEDC’S because they very rarely go to school, need clothes or go to the dentists and doctors. So a youthful population in Kenya would provide many benefits however at the same time there will be costs. With an already high death rate and lots of diseases having many children in LEDC’S put the mothers life in great danger, also passing on the HIV/AIDS virus is a great costs of having many children because the disease is then likely to spread even more. Although the children do help their parents produce food on the farmland they do have to be fed as well which means less food for everyone. Also with a high birth rate, high death rate and high infant mortality due to diseases and illnesses many countries in Africa are rooted to poverty in a vicious cycle and so cannot develop.
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