of a youthful population UGANDA Table 1. Uganda’s age-sex structure: % of population male female 0-14 years – 51.08% 6,150,038 6,100,880 15-64 years – 46.78% 5,613,499 5,607,526 65 years and over – 2.14% 244,216 269,553 Table 1 shows that over 50% of Uganda’s population is under 15
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Global employers face the challenge that, despite a growing global population, they will soon have to recruit from a shrinking workforce due to an aging population”. Despite a growing global population, the availability of skilled workers is actually shrinking. Studies show this is only the beginning of problems. The labor market shrinks and the struggle for talent workers becomes increasingly fierce. Although the global population increases is observed a significant reduction in labor force. The
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Population aging problem in China The current situation of aging problem in China is serious, and will become severer in the future. “China is rapidly getting older. Three decades ago, only 5 percent of population was over 65; today, 123 million people, or 9 percent of population, are over this age. A report released by a government think tank forecasts that China will become the world’s most aged society in 2030. Further, by 2050 China’s older population will likely swell to 330 million, or a
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Statement: The single-child policy implemented in China more than thirty years ago to slow the rate of population growth, not only had a marginal effect on the growth of the population, but also had the unintended consequence of a long-lasting negative impact on the Chinese economy. Abstract: The Chinese government imposed a single-child policy 34 years ago in response to a rapidly increasing population that was determined to be unsustainable. Last November, the government ended the policy. A careful
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in the world, but it still hosts one-third population of the world poors. Studies say, the banking system in India has shown a huge growth however is still unable to reach the remote corners of the nation especially the underprivileged section of the society. According to the data in 2009, 51.4% of the farmer households are financially excluded from both the formal and informal sources, and accounts for 45.9 million out of 89.3 million of this population. 1. Almost three fourth (73%) of all farmer
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Assess the causes and consequences for changes in the UK population This essay will assess the causes and consequences for changes in the UK population, one cause of this is the decline in the death rate which will be looked at in this essay. Another cause of changes in the population, that will be assessed in this essay, is migration and the patterns of it that have a large impact on the characteristics of a country's population. Many sociologists have studied these topics and some that will
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embrace American culture. They also brought with them ‘radical and dangerous’ political ideas such as communism. Many feared that the immigrants would take their jobs and would work for lower wages. Others argued that they would overwhelm local population. The USA was already a booming industrial power by 1890. The expansion of the USA’s economy was came from this huge increase in workers and markets however the new technologies developed at this time, enabled the growth of steam ship companies
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government decided to introduce a number of measures to reduce the country’s birthrate and slow down the mass population growth. One of the greatest and most successful policies was the “One Child Policy”. This policy involves a couple only being allowed one child per family. In 1950 the rate of population change in China was 1.9%, an increase of around 1% would mean that the population would double in less than 24 years. The policy was established by the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979,
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C2010BR-03 INTRODUCTION Figure 1. Focusing on a population’s Reproduction of the Questions on Sex, Age, age and sex composition is and Date of Birth From the 2010 Census one of the most basic ways to understand population change over time. Since Census 2000, the population has continued to grow older, with many states reaching a median age over 40 years. At the same Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census questionnaire. time, increases in the number of men at older ages are first 2010
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to water is also poor in rural areas where only 11 per cent of people can get water compared with 75 per cent of people in urban areas. Rural people also have a higher unemployment rate with close to 50 per cent of the economically active rural population being out of work. Young people and vulnerable groups are particularly hard hit. Poverty has worsened in the Republic of Congo since the 1980s and half the country’s people now live below the poverty line. This average, however, masks wide
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