There are several problems associated with youthful dependency (0 - 14 years):
1. Pressure on housing – not enough housing, people living in slums. This is very common around the big cities (New Delhi), where millions of people live in shanty towns with no running water, roads, sewage of any kind.
2. Pressure on schooling – illiterate population. India’s literacy rate is 60%, Cambodia’s literacy rate is 69%.
3. Pressure on food supplies - famine, food distribution difficulties. Natural disasters accentuate this problem Eg. droughts
4. Potential for further population growth as these young people grow older, get married and have children. This will contine to add pressure to schooling, food supplies, housing and health services.
5. Pressure on health services – a growth in diseases being spread around and not being dealth with adequatly to stop the spread.
6. Pressure on working populations to support the young and old.
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