Consequences of too many Under 15’s
• Costs on Education and health care services
• In the future it will result in a another ‘baby boom’
Consequences of too few under 15’s
• Closures of schools and other services
• Too few consumers/ skilled workers to drive the economy
• Reduction in competitive advantage
• Problem providing pensions to ageing population
Underpopulated: Not enough people to develop a country’s resources. In 1982 Malaysia believed they were underpopulated at a population of 15 million.
Optimum: The size of the population permits full utilisation of natural resources of an area giving maximum per capita and a high standard of living. E.g. The UK’s is 30 million, half the size of its current population.
Overpopulated: A population increase or a decrease in natural resources that leads to a decrease in the standard of living.
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