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Consequences of population structure

Answer Text:
Consequence of Population Structure.
1. Strain on budget due to developing countries having a large population of young people whose health and education cost is high and developing countries having a large proportion of old people whose cost of health and social welfare is high.
2. Low quality of education and health care in developing countries due high population leading to the high cost of those services.
3. Better quality of health and education in developing countries due low population.
4. Strain on working population in developing
countries since most of the money is consumed leaving less for investment. Large population of old people does the same in developing countries.
5. Boost in food production when there is a large proportion of males due to the
availability of a large labour force.
6. Heavy taxation of the working population when the dependency of young and old is high in order to avail funds for provision of social amenities.
7. Large number of females than males leads to low birth rates and consequently slow growth of population.
8. Increase in promiscuity when there are a large number of females than males.