Demographic Transition Model and Population Structure Analysis
Students will investigate the different age groups and genders within their local community and discuss why this matters.
Key Questions
- Apply the Demographic Transition Model to explain Ireland's population history from the pre-Famine period to the present, critically evaluating the model's underlying assumptions and its limitations when applied to countries with non-standard demographic trajectories such as post-Famine Ireland.
- Analyse population pyramid morphologies as diagnostic tools for interpreting age-sex structures, and evaluate the socioeconomic implications of Ireland's projected shift toward an increasingly aged population structure for pension sustainability, healthcare demand, and the old-age dependency ratio.
- Assess how fertility rates, life expectancy, crude death rates, and net migration interact as interdependent components of population change, using comparative statistical data from Ireland and contrasting national case studies at different stages of demographic transition.
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