APHG Unit 2
Basic Types
Rapid Growth
- Whole lotta dependent population
- Not a lot of life expectency
- Way more kids than workers
- Eventually people will get old(not with the current healthcare system over there tho)
Slow Growth
- Less kids than workers
- Still low life excpectency
- Kids and old people are more expensive here
Stability
- Whole lotta old people
- Long life expectency
- Large cost of social security
- Social Security Riots because they raised the retirement age form 62 to 64 lmao
- Nothing changes
- This pyramid will look the same in 30 years(probably)
- CBR and CDR similar
Decline
- You will never financially recover from having a baby
- 38% of people are single
- Women are equal in the workplace
- Women don’t want to have kids because they have to slave away at work
- economic decline
- Retirement homes are packed
- Classrooms have like 3 kids
Specific Features
Wars
- Men die in war
- Lopsides the pyramid
Baby Booms
- War ends
- men haven’t seen a woman in years
- a lot of kids get born
Baby Bust
- Baby boom
- the next generation doesn’t have as many kids because they dont care as much as the men who just came back from war
Echos
- Kids born from the baby boom grow up
- More people are at child bearing age
- Mini baby boom occurs
Qatar and UAE(Immigration)
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- this is mainly because there is a lot of work to be found in the gulf states
- Most of these immigrants(written as surplus) are young single indians and pakistanis working on building skyscrapers and world cup fields.
- They don’t really care about their own human rights because they are making that cash baby
- You see another normal distribution overlapping on the UAE, as rich old businessmen move there because of the luxury and shopping malls and ease of doing business there