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Understanding and Analyzing Population Pyramids: Scaffold sheet

Your country: Philippines Describe population pyramid - 2000 Describe population pyramid - 2025

In 2000, the population pyramid of the Philippines is an expansive shape. The Philippines has a lot of children aged 0-4 and 5-9. The population for children aged 0-4 is about 10.8 million and the population for children aged 5-9 is about 9.3 million. The child and infant mortality rate is pretty high. The difference in population for 0-4 and 5-9 is very different. This shows that a lot of children die before theyre 10 years old. This shows that the Philippine is probably a LED (Less developed country). This is because the countries health care isnt good.

In 2025, the shape of the population pyramid is expansive. The Philippines has a lot of children and teenagers. The infant mortality rate is pretty low because the different between the 0-4, 5-9 and 10-14 is not a lot. The life expectancy is also pretty high. The life expectancy is about 75. There are more male children in the country but older female in the country. This shows that the health care is good and people can live longer lives.

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The life expectancy in Philippines is also very low. Most of the population dies before theyre 70 years old. This also shows that the health care in the Philippines is bad. For the male/female ratio, theyre more male children than female children. But the female population lives longer and with about 2 million females that are older than 65 and 1.5 million males. This is because female people live longer than male people. There is also a low fertility rate. The fertility rate is about 2.1 children per women. The dependency ratio is also pretty low. There are more adults than children and more adults than elderly. When the dependency rate is low, the country can develop more economically because there is more workforce and less people that need taking care of.

Compare and contrast the two pyramids, and offer possible reasons for the changes in the population

Problems that these changes might cause for the country in the future

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The shape of the population pyramids are both expansive. The population pyramid for the year 2025 is more stationary than the one in the year 2000. If the still go on like this, the population pyramid could be a stationary shape causing the country to have no population growth. The pyramid for the year 2000 is a lot smaller than the year 2025. There are more people for all ages in the 2025 pyramid. There are more male children and more female elderly. This shows that the birth rate for male is more than female but the life expectancy for female is more than male.

In the year 2000, the number of children and teenagers is very high. The problems that might come from this is that there isnt enough schools, school supplies and teachers for the large amount of children. If this problem happens, another problem that will appear is that children in overcrowded schools will have a poor education. If they have bad education and still have a lot of children this will affect the countrys development and stop the country from moving forward. Another problem from the population boom is that if there is suddenly a lot of population, the government must make sure there is enough facilities to support these people. These facilities include schools, roads, and work place. Also if the population increases rapidly, there might be a resource problem. There

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The life expectancy has also gone up a lot. The reason Philippines could have a higher life expectancy could be because therere better healthcare. If there is better health care people will be able to live longer. The infant mortality and child mortality rate is also a lot lower because the difference between the 0-4, 5-9 and 10-14 age groups is low. This could also be because there is better health care. This will cause children to have a better chance of surviving their childhood. The dependency ratio has also gone down. The difference between the amount of the workforce and the amount of children is not as different as in the year 2000. This is probably because people are having fewer children. This is probably because in the future, people have more access to contraceptives. Also more people will move to urban areas. If people live in a rural area, they will usually want to have a large workforce. But in the urban areas, there is no work for children and taking care of children is expensive so people are having less children. There might also be more education about contraceptives and having children. might not be enough water, food, oil or electricity for everybody.. Another problem is that when the large amount of teenagers and children finish school, they will need to find jobs, because there are a lot of people there might be unemployment. The government must find ways to help people find jobs to keep the unemployment rate down. Unemployed people will have low money and worse health. If the unemployment rate is high the crime rate might also increase. When people are desperate for money, they might start robbing and committing crime. This will lead to the country developing slower and the peoples lives be worse. The population of Philippines is growing very rapidly. The Filipino government must make sure that the new population of Philippines will be able to have good health care, education, work and infrastructure. If the government will want to reduce the birthrate of the country, they will also need to start doing it before it is too late. If they leave this problem for too long, the country will be overpopulated and they will not have enough time to sustainably reduce the population. Even though the government can make rules about have too many children, the need to do it slowly. A sudden drop in the birthrate could increase the dependency ratio and cause other problems.

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