1.1 Small Population

Question 1

UAE

Answer 1

Population structure favoured more in men, due to high amounts of economic migration

Question 2

Kerala

Answer 2

• India population grows 15million per year
• Slows in Kerala due to state priority in basic needs of women
• Life expectancy 75 in Kerala - 61 in India
• IMR is 14 compared to 70
• Literacy is 85% to 67%.
• Instead of paying out a dowry parents receive money and women can inherit and own land, giving them financial independence.
• Girls outnumber boys in education and so women more likely to know how to keep children healthy and have small afamilies
• Women also more liely to marry later, have careers and more of a life

Question 3

Africa

Answer 3

• Improvements in health led to fall in IMR
• 1955 life expectancy 37 but risen to 60
• TFR is 4.7
• In Niger, AFR is over 7. Population is growing by 800k however predicted it will gradually fall due to development.
• Not following same pattern as developing Asian countries, however
• National family planning programmes, education of women - not effective and contraceptives not effective.
• Strains on educational systems and economies are struggling
• Declines in living standards, uneducated girls and unlikely to overcome social barriers
• In Kenya 58% of married women are now using modern contraception which has been recently rising

Question 4

DTM

Answer 4

1. Amazon Peruvian tribes
2. Rwanda and LICs
   3 Brazil and MICs
   4 UK and HICs
   5 Russia/Japan