Discuss how population distribution and density affects your country politically, economically, and socially
Economically: Rapid population growth tends to depress savings per capita and retards growth of physical capital per worker. The need for social infrastructure is also broadened and public expenditures must be absorbed in providing the need for a larger population rather than in providing directly productive assets. Population pressure is likely to intensify the foreign exchange constraints by placing more pressure on the balance of payment. The need to import food will require the development of new industries for export expansion and/or import substitution. The rapid increase in school-age population and the expanding number of labour force entrants puts ever-greater pressure on educational and training facilities and retards improvement in the quality of education, which is a problem in developing economies. Also, too dense a population aggravates the problem of improving the health of the population and intensifies pressure on employment and the amount of investment available per labor market entrant
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Socially: First, due to high fertility in previous decades, there are many more families in Kenya today. So even though families are smaller, the total number of children continues to grow. Second, Kenyans are living longer. Life expectancy is projected to increase from 54 years today to 68 years by 2050. As a result of these trends, the fastest growing population groups in Kenya are 15 to 64 years—and these are exactly the population groups that work.
From only 22 million working-age people today, Kenya by 2050 will have about 56 million working-age people.
Thus, Kenya is at the start of a demographic transformation. As fertility declines and Kenyans live longer, we will see a dramatic improvement in the “dependency ratio”: the proportion of the working-age population will grow much faster than the young and elderly population groups that depend on them. This implies that Kenya is in a position to benefit from a “demographic dividend”, especially by 2020, when this gap starts to widen
Politically: Over the last few decades, Kenya did not make sufficient progress in upgrading its infrastructure and improving its governance. These constraints made it difficult for new industries to take root, especially in manufacturing, and opportunities to create jobs on a large scale were lost. To ensure that Kenya does not miss future opportunities, and takes full advantage of the demographic dividend that may come to it, better infrastructure and better governance are key.
Discuss a current event about how the population distribution is affecting the environment and natural resources in your country.
Nomadic tribes are forced to settle in order to get a job. Traditional ways may be lost in order to make a living. Game park buses cause soil erosion and alter the wild animals' behaviour. Hotels use a lot of water, which is a precious resource all to support kenya ever changing population distribution.