TERMDEFINITIONEXAMPLES

Pro-natalist policies

Anti-Natalist policies

Pro-immigration policies

Anti-immigration policies

Compare DTM Stage 5 countries like Japan and Stage 2/3 countries like Japan or most African countries. Explain what types of policies countries in their respective positions need to enact and why.

Japan- has high youth dependency ratio because their is not enough working young people to sustain the amount of old people in the society. As a result, Japan wants to introduce Pro-natalist and pro immigration policies to promote population growth and to sustain their economy.

Africa- The problem is they have an unsustainably large population. So, they’d want to promote anti natalist and anti immigration policies.

How are we suppose to know this