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How can you measure the population change in different countries?
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Finding out the fertility rate of the country
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What is the fertility rate ?
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The fertility rate is how many babies are born per 1000 people per year
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give 5 reasons why the fertility rate is higher in LEDCs then MEDCs
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Limited access to family planning services and education about contraception.
Contraception and other methods of family planning may not be culturally or religiously acceptable. Children are a valuable source of labour and income for a family. They can work on the land from a young age and as they get older they can earn money in other jobs. Children can help to care for younger children and elderly family members. High rates of infant mortality (infant deaths) mean that women need to have many children in order to ensure that some survive through to adulthood. It may be traditional or culturally important to have a large family. |
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What does birth rate mean ?
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The average amount of children born by one woman
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what does infant mortality rate mean?
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the death rate of chldren during their first year of life
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who are the economical active people in the population?
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These are the people proving for the dependents and working between the ages 18-66 roughly
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Who are the dependent people in the population?
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The people who are unable to work young dependents and elderly dependants who rely on others to provide for them
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What is a demographic transition model
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This is a graph showing the growth rate of the population including the birth/death rate and the general growth of the population
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What problems are caused by the 1 child policy in china ?
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Children get lonely without any siblings
lack of work force for families In urban areas, the policy has been enforced strictly but remote rural areas have been harder to control. Forced abortions take place and unaffordable fines are put in place |
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What benefits are caused by the 1 child policy
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It has been overall successful in reducing Chinas uncontrollable population. the pop growth is now increasing by under 0.7%.
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What is the gender problem which has been happening in china due to the one child policy?
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increasing abortions have been taking place of baby girls due to the increased value for boys and doctors receive bribes to tell the gender of the baby
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what is an ageing population?
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An increase of elderly people normally due to the advance in medical care and health
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What are the problems with an ageing population?
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can increase house prices due to the pensioners being quite wealthy after recieving their pensions which often concludes in no young people living in the area due to the lack of facilities
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