At the present time, the population of some countries includes a relatively large number of young adults, compared with the number of older people. Do the advantages of this situation outweigh the disadvantages?

It seems paradoxical that while some countries are tackling population shrinkage, overpopulation, particularly the excessively large number of young people has been an issue in many societies. Despite some certain drawbacks which will be described in the first part of this essay, I am convinced that there are more benefits of a nation having more young citizens than elders, as we shall see.

On the one hand, a youthful population does have many impacts on society as a whole. Firstly, the larger the working-age population is, the less job opportunities given, increasing the unemployment rate and inevitably resulting in a loss of income. Secondly, it is true that the burden on public infrastructure including transport, medical or educational systems will be more enormous and costly to improve. Pressure on schooling, housing, food supplies or health services is of the main reasons causing poverty and social crimes in many countries such as Pakistan or Bangladesh. Vietnam has also struggled with alarming youth crime rates over recent decades because of the increasing number of youngsters in many rural areas.

However, youthful population provides a large future workforce, representing a significant economic resource since a young working population can drive economic growth and offset the social costs of an ageing population. Furthermore, young people tend to update their knowledge and develop their skills faster than elders, hence more easily adapt to dynamic working environments. For example, numerous young but skilled IT technicians and software engineers working in many international companies like Intel, IBM or Microsoft are originally from India, thanks to the successful investment of Indian government in education. In addition, government's revenue can be secured by a young and healthy population through taxes, which is irrefutably essential for a higher living standard of all people.

Overall, youthful population can put strain on critical national infrastructure but it appears to me that the benefits are greater than having an ageing population, provided that government has proper strategies to take advantage of its young manpower resources.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, while, for example, in addition, such as, it is true

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1861.0 1615.20841683 115% => OK
No of words: 332.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.60542168675 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03861028917 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 176.041082164 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.635542168675 0.561755894193 113% => OK
syllable_count: 585.9 506.74238477 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 45.4131497109 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 155.083333333 106.682146367 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.6666666667 20.7667163134 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.1666666667 7.06120827912 158% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.170431158368 0.244688304435 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0578848749785 0.084324248473 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0456189445602 0.0667982634062 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0996551520239 0.151304729494 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0404759363664 0.056905535591 71% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 13.0946893788 144% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 27.15 50.2224549098 54% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 11.3001002004 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.55 12.4159519038 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.73 8.58950901804 125% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 78.4519038076 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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