In opinion of the author of article, demography nowadays is more important than ever before. The article is written by an American scientist. She is seeing the demography’ s trends as the tools for improving the national security.
Main demography’s trends are youthful population, transitional age structures and urbanization. Youthful population trend means that in some Middle Eastern countries such as Yemen, Egypt there are lots of young people in age from 18 to 25 whose living conditions are poor. According to their traditions they suppose to be married to their age but they can really follow their career path in spite of their being well-educated and having university degrees. States are not able to create suitable work places – that is the main reason. This trend might lead to political instability in the states and conflicts. The good news are that it also might lead to more democratical way of manging the country after all.
Transitional age structures are those what India, Brasil and South Africa are experiencing. Their population majority is young, which is good for economy because more people are giving something to economy rather than taking from it. So they can use it in order to increase their own economy. But the next level is when the median age of the population is higher like it is in European countries now.
Urbanization trend is also can be observed as positive and negative because from one side urbanization gives the best to current civilization because people can share ideas. On the other hand it leads to existanse of so called slums.
In the article I liked that the observations are very practical. They show that demography influenses a lot political and economical situation in the country. Every country which wants to be important in the political scene should invest in demographical