youthful demographic
In these days and age, several nations recorded changes in their demographic proportion as the number of young people has dominated. This trend has proven to offer both opportunities such as plentiful manpower and tax base; as well as shortcomings like worsen living standard and overpopulation.
On the one hand, having a youthful population brings many benefits. Firstly, this trend provides countries with a considerable amount of productive workforce. This is due to the fact that most youngsters possess competent physical health, creativity and enthusiam, which meets the evergrowing demand for laborious blue collar jobs along with white collar jobs. Secondly, having more young working citizens equals to a sufficient tax base. To be specific, taxes paid by workers not only contribute to the development of the countries' economy but can also be invested in the advancement of social services like education and healthcare.
On the other hand, such proportion of population poses a number of threats to the countries. Firstly, overcrowding young population put strain on available social services. For instance, enlarging workforce usually associates with either food, water and accommodation defficiency or counter-productive consumerism. Thus, dwellers may undergo poor living standard and a widening gap between the rich and the poor. Secondly, further subsequent drawbacks of overpopulation might occur as the consequence of the aformentioned trend. Competitive working environment and the constant demand for lucrative, high-paid jobs are likely to result in unemployment, hence the expected increase in crime rate, especially juvenile delinquency; poverty, illiteracy and so on.
In conclusion, while a youthful demographic portion provides countries with economic potential; it deprives many people of standard living condition. From my perspective, the disadvantage hardly outweight the advantages in this situation.
