If jobs are decreasing in an area and young people are leaving, what effect can occur on future population growth?

Correct answer: Future growth may slow down

The correct answer is A: future growth may slow down. When young people leave because jobs are declining, the area loses part of its present population through emigration. It may also lose many people in the age group that could later form families and have children. Therefore future births and natural increase may be lower, although the exact result depends on other demographic conditions. Option B is wrong because youth out-migration does not guarantee more births in the area. Option C is wrong because poor job availability is more likely to discourage immigration, but an increase is not logically inevitable. Option D is impossible: migration cannot make the death rate zero. The safe conclusion is “may slow,” not “must stop.” Memory cue: migration changes both population size now and the age structure that influences later growth.