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39 Cards in this Set
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In the past thirty years the average family size in Mexico has dropped from 7 to what?
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2.5
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One in six young adults in Kenya is what?
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HIV positive
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What percentage of Kenyans finish High School?
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80%
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What percentage of unemployment is in many villages in Kenyan?
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70%
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What is the population in India?
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1 billion
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What percentage of women in India can't read or write?
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63%
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China had 1.3 billion people this is what amount of the worlds population?
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1/3
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When did the Chinese government start a policy of limiting family size?
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1979
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Between 1959-1961, famine gripped China and nearly how many people starved to death?
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30 million
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What percent of the Chinese live off the land?
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70%
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Does China really have a single child policy?
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Yes
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What happens to a couple if they have a "Birth without permission"
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They pay a fine
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The fines amount to how much of the annual income
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twice the annual income
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How many children were born in Italy in 1958? in 1998?
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one million -1958
50,000 - 1998 |
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Today in Italy there are more people over the age of ____ than under the age of 20
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60
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What is the cause of the extreme low birth rate in Italy?
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it is a result of the changing status of women
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What is the average age a women in Italy has her first child?
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Thirty
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The US is the _____most populous country in the world after China and India.
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Third
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What is the biggest issue in the US concerning population?
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The impact that each person has on the environment
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The average American consumes ____ times more resources than a person in the developed world.
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50 times
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In the entire world of 6 billion lived like Americans we would need how many more planets of this size?
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Two
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What will happen when the birds and wildlife are gone?
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We will disappear
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How many residents does Mexico City gain each year even as they slow their population growth?
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About one million
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Today how many young people are coming of a reproductive age?
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one billion
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China will grow to how many billion before stabilizing in 40 years?
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1.6 billion
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where is 98% of the population growth occurring?
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in developing nations
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The official position of the Church prohibits all artificial methods of what?
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birth control
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When was the 6 billionth person born?
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Sometime around October 12, 1999
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How long did it take for our human population to reach its first one billion?
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several million years
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Our most recent billion arrived in how long?
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12 years
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The population of the world will decrease if every family has how many children?
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Two
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What is something that women in developing countries desperately want.
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Family planning
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In this century the human population has gone from 2 billion to what?
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6 billion
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In the past thirty years, the average number of children has dropped from six to what?
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three
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Half of the world is under the age of?
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25
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To the environment more people means greater demands for what?
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fresh water
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How many people could we reach by the year 2050?
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9 billion
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By 2015 there will how many megacities?
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26
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With 18 million, what is the largest megacity in the world?
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Mexico City
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