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Encyclopedia > Optimum population

Optimum population is where the amount of resources available in a country is equal to the country's population needs, so there are enough resources to maintain its population. [citation needed] Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...


If it is below its optimum population then it has more resources than needed for the population, if it is above then it has too little resources to maintain its population.


To achieve optimum population, a country must change some of the following dimensions to lower or increase their fertility rate, before they can achieve optimum population. Immigration, age distribution and changes in lifespan must also be taken into account.


Achieving Optimum Population

Social and Cultural


Changing people's views and attitudes on religion to adjust it into a modern fashion, changing social attitudes, such as giving women more rights and thought in starting a large family than following tradition. The term women’s rights typically refers to freedoms inherently possessed by women and girls of all ages, which may be institutionalized or ignored and/or illegitimately suppressed by law or custom in a particular society. ...


Economic


Increasing career opportunities will have peoples' minds set on education and career prospects, and maintaining their job, such that the immediate impulse to start a family might be delayed.


Medical and Scientific


Increasing the amount of contraception in LEDC (Less Economically Developed Country) educating adults and children about sexual education, on how to use contraception and the risks involved. A developing country is a country with a low income average, a relatively backwards infrastructure and a poor human development index when compared to the global norm. ... Sex education is education about sexual reproduction in human beings, sexual intercourse and other aspects of sexual behaviour. ...


Political


Improving education to direct people into a career, this will have people concentrate on getting a stable job rather than plan ahead on starting a family.


Example of China

Social and Cultural


Higher status has been given to women, so that they can get better career prospects, and have a say in planning a family, this means they can work on their career rather than plan a family straight away.


Also the government has asked couples to marry later, and asked for fewer marriages to take place, so that fewer children will be born.


Economic


The government is delivering “Glory Certificates” to any couple who have followed the "One Child" law; this gives many benefits such as lower taxes, cash rewards, and better career opportunities. Poster of Chinese birth control policy under the slogan Sweet Achievement. ...


Medical and Scientific


Before a couple can marry and have children, they must go through several tests, one including a test to see if they carry and genetic or infectious diseases, to see if a child they would have will carry it on. A genetic disorder is a disease caused by abnormalities in genes or chromosomes. ... This false-colored electron micrograph shows a malaria sporozoite migrating through the midgut epithelia. ...


Political


The "One Child" policy is known all around the world, China had enforced this law to reduce its rapidly growing population. Because of this one child policy, families tend to only want a boy to help them in the future, but this is fading out with growing job opportunities for women.


External links

www.optimumpopulation.org


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Population Index - Volume 65 - Number 1 (2673 words)
The main developments in each topic are summarized by decade; the first section covers population studies up to the founding of the federal institute in 1973, the second deals with the 1970s, the third with the 1980s, and the last with the time since 1990 and unification.
The author notes that although the populations of different regions are generally following the same trends, they are at very different stages of development, and that there are significant differences in the characteristics of the global population by region.
Discussions of the main principles of demography and population theory not applied to actual data, including such concepts as Malthusianism, the demographic transition, overpopulation, optimum population, and stable and stationary population models as distinct from methodological studies and models using data, which are classified under
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