Life expectancy is rising. What are the causes and effects?
Currently, the increase in the human life span is certainly a topical issue as so many nations are seeing this pattern. From my perspective, there are two main causes and two key impacts, which I will outline now.
First of all, the main cause is probably the improvement in living standards. For example, since the Industrial Revolution and the following advances in science and technology, a myriad of jobs have been created. Therefore, people can earn income and gain better access to consume fine food, housing, sanitation and health care, resulting in the eradication of problems relating to poverty such as not eating well and having clean water.
The other factor that brings about the situation is the enhancement of medical care. As a result of significant progress, vaccines to cure fatal diseases like polio and smallpox, or medicine to cure HIV have been produced. Moreover, effective treatments for the well-being of infants in their early years including vaccination and providing nutritious diets have led to less illness when they enter adulthood.
However, the effects of increased life expectancy can be quite devastating. For one thing, there will be a lack of a qualified workforce. Due to the ageing population, productivity cannot be raised to contribute to the economy of a nation. If a country wants to boost production and compete with others, it must have a skilled labour force with excellent health and a brilliant mind to cope with the excessive workload. The other point I would like to mention is the exorbitant fund to cater for the elderly. To illustrate, the government in any country always has pension plans for subsidizing retired workers. Hence, if there is a high proportion of them, the authority may not offer benefits to all. Consequently, economic stagnation is inevitable since there will not be enough money to invest in other fields such as industry, science and education.
In conclusion, the causes of this phenomenon are primarily to do with the rise in living standards of the public and the advancement of medical care; the effects mainly involve in terms of economy. Thus, it is recommended that policymakers should raise the retirement age in order for elderly people to devote their intelligence and expertise to society while they are still working, which could reduce the financial burden.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, hence, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, therefore, well, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, as a result, first of all, for one thing
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 8.3376753507 204% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1971.0 1615.20841683 122% => OK
No of words: 381.0 315.596192385 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17322834646 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41805628031 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83348133957 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 176.041082164 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.62467191601 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 625.5 506.74238477 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.8672331684 49.4020404114 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.5 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1666666667 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.61111111111 7.06120827912 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.141167304855 0.244688304435 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0423805887695 0.084324248473 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.075492191136 0.0667982634062 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.080721823631 0.151304729494 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0196292761548 0.056905535591 34% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.53 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 78.4519038076 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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