France experiences a stable growth of population. France fertility and mortality declined more or less concurrently rather than mortality decline preceding fertility decline. India has experienced rapid population growth noted between 2001 and 2011 where the population increased by181 million people.
According to the population pyramids of India and China about 50% of the Indian population was below 20 years while for France about 20% of the population was about 20 years. Therefore, population growth in India then was much higher than in France. The pyramids specify that over 55% of the people In France were 40 years older and just 20% of them were more than 60 years. In India, 30% of the population was at age 40.Both countries experience equal sex distribution in the majority of the age gro
...ups. It is, therefore, logical to say that, in France, people who lived for more than 70 years were more than those who lived in India with a difference of 9%.
The international data shows that population growth rate in France increased from 0.5% to 0.4 from 1995 to 2015 and is expected to hit 0.3% by 2025.The fertility rate increased from 1.7% in 1995 to 2.1 in 2015 and is expected to maintain the same trend to 2025 with the crude birth rate of 13 per thousand in 1995 and 11 per thousand in 2025 respectively. The mortality rate, on the other hand, is characterized by life expectancy at birth ranging from 78 to 82 births in 1995 and 2015 respectively and deaths increasing from 541 thousand in 1995 to 610 thousand in 2015 and an expected increase to 684 thousand in 2025.On contrast, the growt
rate of India decrease from 1.9% to 1.2% 1995 and 2015 respectively while the total fertility rate faces a declining trade from 3.4 to 1.2.
According to UN, India may become the most populated country in less time than expected. Indian population is projected to hit 1.5 billion people by 2030 and expand to 1.7 billion in 2050.India’s economy is growing at the faster rate, and this will translate to higher living standard increasing the birth rate and decreasing the mortality rate and finally translating to a greater population. India has the high population of young people compared to most of the nations and has a declining fertility rate and a decreasing mortality rate.
In the coming decades, while most of the countries will experience a decrease in the population, India is expected to experience the opposite since. If the birth rate is to increase with a decrease in mortality rate and an increase in economic growth, then life expectancy is expected to increase by increasing the population. India is politically stable and a democratic country which is supposed to maintain its peaceful status in the next decade and this is going to preserve its population growth rate (http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/informationGateway.php).
The location is the important factor influencing the population of a nation. Plains contain higher population density than mountain areas because it’s easy to utilize the land by setting up industries and practicing agriculture. A moderate climate is ideal, and availability of fresh water rivers encourage settlement and industrial growth which offer employment opportunities and this, in the long run, contributes to higher population density.
Historical development theory states that the coastal areas are always populated since there is access
to water and warm temperature and hot or warm summer that favor more settlement. Indian government took steps towards curbing high population when other nations worried about the overgrowing Indian residents in the planet. Indian age structure which is dominated by productive young people could give it a competitive advantage to aging population of France and other European countries.
Poverty is a major problem in India, caused by hunger and high level of illiteracy. Most families in India think that to avoid poverty then; there is the need to increase the family number giving a challenge to the Indian government since it cannot afford to offer employment to the large population making the country vulnerable to economic shocks. India is also in a problem of pressure in infrastructure since the population density is at a higher face. (http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/informationGateway.php) Poor management, underutilization of capacity due to the scarcity of raw materials, an uneconomical scale of production and difficulties in selling the final products is also a challenge to the growing India.
France is facing many problems like the failure to pay off its debts, but the debts are decreasing with the GDP rated at 2.774 trillion and growth in investment. The country has many needy highest unemployed individuals most of them immigrants living in Clichy. These people feel the government forgot them, have their markets and do not enjoy their rights as the other people like the right to vote. There is massive social security tax on the employee used to reward the unemployed. French are mostly said to do nothing since the starting salaries are less than what government gives to people unemployed. The highest percentage of
women think that sex work is still work and therefore engage in sex trafficking to afford to live to the standards due to a limited number of jobs which mostly is taken by men.
The population pyramid of Ethiopia shows rapid growth. Indonesia shows a growth decline while the UK is showing a stable population growth. Ethiopia rapid growth is related to high fertility that provides a growth rate of 3% per year in the present global population structure. The maximum fertility rate in Ethiopia would increase its population growth rapidly in the future. Indonesia has a declining pattern with the highest population ranging from 25 to 54 and 0 to 14 years and decreasing from 65 years and above. The United Kingdom, on the other hand, has a stable population growth of about symmetric between men and women but expected to increase from 2015 to 2050. Indonesia is projected to have the highest population targeted at 253,609,648 considering its increasing fertility rate and decreasing mortality rate.
Indonesia faces a problem of identity, whether to be an agricultural, tourism or industrial country. It also faces many clashes between religion, political and races and spends more time on who is better than the real work. It’s the most ranked country in destroying forests and where the poor is getting poorer while the rich get richer widening the economic gap. Commercial property prices in the UK are increasing at a rapid rate while the rental yield is falling. The pound is devaluated by the increasing cost of imported goods, the decline in investment in the UK, decline in consumer confidence, rise in unemployment and decline in immigration leading to
the shortage of labor are the biggest challenges facing the UK.
Ethiopia is on the other hand facing critical challenges that continue affecting the poor in the nation (Bekele, 2011). The increase in food prices with no increase in farm produce prices in Ethiopia make the poor poorer and increase illiteracy since they can’t afford the necessities. Life of Ethiopians continues being threatened by water pollution, severe droughts, and land degradation.
References
- Bekele, G. (2011). The in-between people: A reading of David Bosch through the lens of mission
history and contemporary challenges in Ethiopia. Eugene, Or: Pickwick Publications. - http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/informationGateway.php
