ENGL 2655 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Arab Spring, Angela Merkel, Dependency Ratio
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Module 1 written assignment: age structure of japan and the united states (graphs from index mundi) Common features: in both the us and japan, about half of the population is aged between 25 and 64 years old. There are more and more old people and less young people and hence less young people have more children. Although the ratio is a lot more unbalanced in japan, both countries have an increasing dependency ratio of elderly to young. This also tells us each country will need to invest more in health care in the near future: both the us and japan"s population distribution models reflect that of an industrialized advanced economy. We know this because each has a large amount of elderly people, which means their life expectancies are high. Japan"s life expectancy at birth is 84 and that of the us is 79.
