Demographic Challenges

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Demographic Challenges

• Social Agendas and the Future

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Demographic Transition
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Demographic Transition Model
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Projected Population Decline?

• Europe is the only World region expected to lose
  population over next 20 years
• Second demographic transition or Stage 5
• http//www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html
• Smaller families
• lower fertility rates twilight of parenthood?
• Men and women are cohabiting more, marrying
  later, becoming parents at older ages, and having
  fewer children, as well as terminating their
  marriages more frequently than was common in the
  recent past Faus-Pujol (1995, quoted in
  textbook, p. 243).
• Longer Life expectancy
• top heavy population structures
• Increased Immigration
• Increased racial and ethnic diversity
• Challenge to national cultural institutions