Outline and comment on the economic and political consequences of population change.

There are also economics problems for the receiving country such as; due to the population growth there becomes a higher demand for jobs, this means that, normally the migrants take up the menial jobs within society which tends to outrage most of the original population of the receiving country as they accuse the migrants of stealing their jobs. Also as shown in political consequences, they growth of the population can lead to a strain on resources. In a LEDC these strains on the resources can usually lead to famine and malnutrition as there is simply not enough to go around the ‘new population’. However in an MEDC the rapid demand for resources usually leads to prices rising on certain resources as there is an increased demand for them. Also migrants tend to send back money to their families in their country of origin, this leads to economic loses for the country with the migrant in. An example of this is Polish migrants who have come to the UK for work and have sent back money to their families in Poland to help them.

For the country of origin, where the migrant have left, there are a few problems with a decline in the population. The first one is that usually the people who leave are the countries are the more skilled and educated workers. This causes a shortage of labour and a brain drain for the country as they have less skilled and educated workers available. Farming in most countries is a major part of their economy, with people emigrating then Farming is likely to decline and land will become abandoned; as there no need to build houses as the population has declined and farming has declined. However there is a positive which is due to the labour shortage which is a reduced pressure on resources such as farmlands. Another positive for the origin country is that money is usually sent back to the area, which compensates for lack of skilled workers. Also many immigrants return back to their native country and in doing so bring back new skills which are passed on to others. This usually leads to help within the economy.

There are also political consequences with people immigrating to other countries; such as the government will need to focus its attention on natural increase. They could introduce policies which encourage families to have more children, for example Germany has now developed a declining birth rate and has now spent millions of pounds on schemes and policies to help combat it.  Also as well, the government may look to attract immigrants to their country, by making it more appealing due to the low work force they have and maybe a better standard of living that the immigrants origin country. The final thing the government may do to combat its declining population is to  request for international aid , this would stabilize the economy until the country becomes more appealing to other people.