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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Decreasing household size

Decreasing household size

  • Decreasing family size

Incidence

During the 1980s, the size of the average household, as measured by the number of persons per household, diminished in most ECE countries (by up to 29 percent in the case of Denmark). The size of the average household in the EU countries, for example, decreased in all countries to varying degrees. In 1990 it averaged 1.7 persons in Denmark to 3.4 persons in Spain.

Broader

Unnecessary personal consumption
Presentable

Aggravates

Housing shortage
Excellent

Aggravated by

Living alone
Excellent
Underpopulation
Presentable
Family breakdown
Presentable
Declining birth rate
Presentable
Inability of governments to regulate family size
Yet to rate

Reduces

Excessively large families
Presentable

Related

Marginal living space
Unpresentable

Strategy

Forming families
Yet to rate
Compiling building data
Yet to rate
Collating household statistics
Yet to rate

Value

Decreasing
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #5: Gender EqualitySustainable Development Goal #11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Content quality
Unpresentable
 Unpresentable
Language
English
1A4N
J1426
DOCID
12014260
D7NID
148770
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/problem/decreasing-household-size
Last update
Oct 4, 2020