MALAYSIAN DEMOGRAPHICS: AGE DISTRIBUTION

By RHODA HABTEMICHAEL

General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age: AGE DISTRIBUTION

Agricultural Age:shorter life span: plagues, diseases effected all social classes.
Industrial Age: Life span increased inn developed, industrial countries, but new indusrial and social disseases emeeerged
Information Age: aging populatioons in developed Noth countries, not developing, South countries (where population is still more of child bearing age

Information/Data on Malaysian Demographic Age Distribution fits more in industrial society. Life expectancy ranges from 68-71 years and 65 years and over are about 4% of the population

Conclusions on Malaysia

Malysian age distribution is mainly younger population with averaging 4% of older pepole. Nevertheless, becouse of the incresing improvement in technology they seem to have more stress and use illegal drugs to cope with it. They also have an increeasing problem with AIDS among the younger generation.

Additional Online Sources on Malaysia's Demographic Age Distribution

Background information

Traditional Bibliographic Sources on Malaysia's Demographic Age Distribution

CULTURGRAM, 1996.

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