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Ireland: Population Pyramid and Demographic transition discussion

This is a population pyramid of Ireland in the year of 2011. It shows the numbers of men and women in the Irish population. We can see that the graph is not perfectly a triangle. If the graph is a perfect triangle, it means the country’s population is stable. However, the population started to drop from the ages around 30-34 to ages of 0-4. In 2011, Ireland has more old women more than old men. It seems to have the lowest population on the ages around 15-19, and the highest population around 30-34. From the information in the population pyramid above us, we can see that men’s populations are more than women’s in the ages of 0-70. There seems to be more young men than young women. Apparently, more men are being born than women during these days. Also from what I’ve researched in the HPSC website, women seems to have more diseases th. The Diseases appear to be on Old men and women too, but it seems like most diseases seem to be happen on the ages around 10-14, and that is a reason for why the population started to fall down from those ages. In an old time, Ireland once had a problem on potato crops failure. Irish people eat potato as their foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner. So when potato crops failure event comes, more and more people starved or died from starving.

This is the information of birth rates, and death rates in different years that I got it from the Census website. I will use this to represent the demographic transition model. What’s Demographic transition model? It is a transition from high birthrate and death rate to low birth rate and death rate. As we can see in the graph above, in the next 4-14 years the birth rates will start to drops. Meanwhile the death rates start to increase a bit by bit. This obviously shows us that in the future, Ireland’s population might drop from a little to a huge numbers of them. The birth rate and death rate are not the only case why Ireland’s population might drop.

From What I’ve researched about, in 2009 more than 23,000 Irish people immigrate to Australia. Ireland’s economy isn’t so good. One of the immigrants said that his father still has no jobs, but he will be alright”. Many people want to immigrate to another country to find jobs, money, and much other stuff.

Approximately around 10,000 people die each year from cardiovascular disease, and other circulatory disease. The largest numbers of death mainly base on heart attack. More importantly, it seems that 22% of the deaths are in young people (under age 65)

In many years ago, Ireland had a problem on Potato crops failure which leads an event to less population and immigrations. Many people start to immigrant because there is no food, nor works. Also in the graph about Demographic Transition, the death rate is higher than the birth rate. Both of them change bit by bit, and that’d also leads to a factor that less population of Ireland will surely happens.