8.4 Managing human population size

Question 1

strategies for managing human
population size

Answer 1

• family planning
• improved health and education
• national population policies – pronatalist or antinatalist

Question 2

family planning

Answer 2

• methods used by couples to decide the number of children to have and when, which is mostly encouraged by governments
• use of Contraception

Question 3

Improved health

Answer 3

improvement in health care will reduce the infant mortality
rate (the number of children that die before the age of one)

Question 4

improved education:

Answer 4

Education help to reduce early marriage, increase the number of career women which on a long run reduces population size

Question 5

2 POPULATION POLICIES

Answer 5

Pro-Natalist Policy:
Anti-Natalist policy:

Question 6

Pro-Natalist Policy:

Answer 6

A policy that encourages couples to have more children. (You cannot forcepeople to have more children so you have to offer incentives instead e.g. free childcare or even
money)

Question 7

Anti-Natalist policy

Answer 7

A policy that attempts to reduce birth rates
(This might be through better education and supply of contraception or through much stricter policies like China’s one child policy)