Scotland’s population

Scotland is one of the countries which suffer from the decreasing of its population. The decreasing of the population in Scotland has a big affects on the country. It will face many problems from the shortage of its population. “Experts warned that Scotland’s ageing population meant this trend would not continue, and the fertility was likely to decline in the future” (Moss, 2007, P.6, para.4). The decreasing of the number of children that parents have has a big effect on Scotland’s population. “Yet despite the increases, the figures found that the long-term trends for Scotland are stark: people are having fewer children, living longer and even although more migrants are coming to live in Scotland, they are not doing so in large enough number to arrest the population long-term decline”. According to A. Hardie’s article, “European income prop up Scotland’s falling population”(2007, April 27). This is one of the big problems for the Scottish people. It will cause many problems to the people in the future.

The Scottish people should protect their country from these problems. They should think about the good ways to increase the population in their country. There are many ways which helps to increase the Scotland’s population. First, they should increase the number of migrants. The number of immigrants is one of the important factors which have a big effect on the number of the population in any country. The increasing of the immigrating people will helps to increase the number of the population. Scotland needs to find good ways to increase the number of immigrants. There are many different ways to increase the number of immigrants. For example, they could increase the number of students. The number of foreign students has an important effect on the Scotland’s population. When they have a high number of foreign students, that will increase Scotland’s population. Second, they should help the parents who have more than one child to raise their children. Many people in Scotland chose to have small number of children. That is because raising children costs a lot of money today. Third, they should protect the human life from getting hard diseases. There are many Scottish people who have died at different ages from getting hard diseases.

There are causes of the decreasing in Scotland’s population. There are many important factors which have a big effect the Scotland’s population. First is the number of births. The number of birth is a very important factor which affects the increasing of the population rate in any country. When the birth rate goes up the number of the population will increase. In the recent years in Scotland, the birth rate has become one of important factors in influencing the population. That the population growth has started to decrease in the last few years because of many people chose to have small number of children.

Second is an increasing in the percentage of elderly. Scotland’s population has a very high number of old people. The Scottish experts expect that the number of the population will not increase again because they have a large number of old people (Moss, 2007).

Third is an increase in the number of deaths. There are a number of people who died from getting hard diseases in Scotland. Even this number has started to decrease in the last few years. But it still has a big effect on the Scotland population, because Scotland’s population is already suffering from the decreasing of the number of birth rate. “More than one in seven adults in Scotland are living with some form of heart or circulatory disease” (Moss, 2007, p.6).

The government should find ways to help to increase the population in Scotland. First, the government should the increase the number of immigrants. Also, the Scotland’s government should try to increase the number of immigrating young people, whose ages are between 16 and 35. On the other hand, many people think that immigrating old people will help to increase the Scotland’s population. But they are wrong because young people have more opportunity to increase the population than old people. Furthermore, they will help to increase Scotland’s economy. They will able to work more than old people. Also they will increase the Scotland’s income. (Newsquest Media Group, 2007). “An influx of people from the EU accession countries of eastern Europe has helped ease the pressure since they pay taxes which go towards funding the public services and, in cases, provide these services themselves. Theirs has been a positive contribution upon which Scotland will have to depend, to some degree or another in the years ahead” (Newsquest media group, 2007).

Second, encouraging the people to have more children is one of the good ways to increase the population in any country. The government should find good ways to help the parents to have more children. For example, they could reduce the cost of children’s health insurance and schooling. These are important factors which affect the number of children the parents have, because it costs a lot of money today. When people see that they will not face any kinds of these problems when they have more than one child, I think that will encourage them to have more than one child.

Third, today we see many people die at different ages because of many different kinds of hard disease, for example heart disease, cancer circulatory disease and other different kinds of disease. Also, we see many children who died before their first day of birth because of disease. So we should spend money to protect people’s lives from hard diseases which are affect the population rate in many countries, for example, by giving them the important vaccines and taking care of their health by getting health insurance for them.

Finally, encouraging the people to get married early, is one of the important factors which affect the child population. When the couple gets married early that will increase their opportunities to have more than one child. Furthermore it will be easy to take care of them. For example, they can encourage the people by showing them the difference between taking care of children when they get old or while they are not old and how it is easy to take care of children before the parents get old.

In conclusion, the decreasing in the Scotland’s population is one of the important issues which face the Scottish people and government today. It has a big effect on to the people’s lives. Also it will cause many problems to the country in the future. So the government should find good ways to handle this problem. For example, they should increase the number of immigrants, encourage the people to have more than one child by helping them to raise their children, protect the human life from hard diseases, and help the people to get married early.

Reference

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Hardie, A. (2007, April 27). European incomer population prop up Scotland’s falling population. Scotsman population Ltd, from Lexis Nexus database.

Henderson, D (2007, April 27). Eastern influx helps boost Scotland’s population births keep total above five million. Newsquest Media Group.Link

Moss, L. (2007, March 9) birth boom provides temporary reprieve for nation’s falling population. The Scotsman publication Ltd. Retrieved July 13, 2007, from Lexis Nexus database.
Newsquest Media group, 2007, March 9. A demographic crisis?; planning can help offset population decline. Newsquest. Retrieved July 13, 2007, from Lexis Nexus database.