In the developed world, average life expectancy is increasing. What problems will this cause for individuals and society? Suggest some measures that could be taken to reduce the impact of ageing populations.
In rich countries people’s lives are getting longer, a trend that can have huge implications for society as a whole, mostly for the worse. Governments should take active measures to mitigate the impact of an ageing population.
Problems emerge as society ages, and chief among these is the economic burden imposed by a rising number of pensioners. When people enter old age, they are prone to diseases such as cancer and heart problems. This means that in an ageing society there will be a rise in the demand for healthcare, which could put the health budget under strain. Another issue is that as life expectancy increases, the proportion of working, younger adults will be smaller, and consequently, governments will collect less taxes in relation to the size of the population. Worse still, older citizens tend to be passive consumers, meaning that there will be less consumer spending and therefore slower economic growth.
Several measures could be taken to tackle these problems. A simple solution would be to raise the retirement age for working adults, perhaps from 65 to 70. This could reduce the proportion of pensioners in the overall population and make government budgets in better shape. Another step is to encourage immigration. By attracting young talent from around the globe, governments can increase the number of tax payers and effectively redress demographic imbalances, as is demonstrated by the cases of the United States and Singapore. Automation also works. An ageing population could result in the shortage of skilled labor. Using robots to replace human workers goes a long way towards addressing this problem.
To sum up, governments can take measures to lessen the negative impact of population ageing, mainly in the form of increasing the retirement age, encouraging immigration and taking advantage of automation.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, if, so, still, therefore, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 10.0 24.0651302605 42% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.3376753507 192% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1580.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 295.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35593220339 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83495236257 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.610169491525 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 487.8 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.5320359951 49.4020404114 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.75 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4375 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 7.06120827912 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.276200546488 0.244688304435 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0785492593679 0.084324248473 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0560620434928 0.0667982634062 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145680188701 0.151304729494 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0536222837235 0.056905535591 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.45 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.