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If the number of births begins falling rapidly, why does demand for secondary schools not decline immediately?

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Correct answer: Large cohorts born earlier are still reaching secondary-school ages

A fall in births immediately makes only the newest infant group smaller. It does not remove children who were born in earlier years. Those larger groups continue to grow older and enter the usual secondary-school age range. Therefore, school demand responds with a time lag rather than changing in the same year. The correct choice is A because earlier-born cohorts are still moving toward secondary education. Choice C is wrong: fewer births do not make the teenage population instantly zero.

Population planning must consider the age structure already present, not only the latest birth figures. Even if births fall sharply today, many children already alive will need schools several years later. Demand may decline gradually when the smaller cohorts reach secondary-school age. Thus, the existing population momentum explains why education facilities cannot be reduced immediately, and why planners use cohort projections when estimating future schools.

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Birth DeclineSecondary School DemandCohort EffectDemographic LagPopulation GrowthThe World Population – DistributionDensity And GrowthThe World Population Distribution Density And Growth

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