When a country's population grows slowly it has the following effects

• It has an ageing population, so large amounts of money is spent in providing services, e.g. healthcare, for older people
• As there is fewer young people less money needs to be spent on this age group
• There could be a shortage of workers in the future, with so few young people
• Migrants move into the country, often to work in the low paid, low status jobs that would otherwise be difficult to find workers for