Birth Rate/death Rate Flashcards
What are the reasons for high birth rate?
Lack of contraception and knowledge on family planning.
Children are needed to work on farms and bring in an income for the family.
Children take care of their parents in old age due to a lack of pensions/social care.
High infant mortality rates mean
parents have more children in the hope that some survive.
Having a large family increases a man’s status in some societies.
People get married at a younger age and so have larger families.
What are the reasons for high death rate?
Fewer medical facilities (doctors and medicine).
Lack of clean water leads to diseases such as cholera.
Houses without sanitation means
disease spreads easily.
Infectious diseases such as HIV/aids and malaria are more common in developing countries.
Famines/ malnutrition are common due to natural disasters destroying crops.
- War – many developing countries
suffer civil war.
What are the reasons for low birth rate?
Contraception is plentiful.
Abortion is legal in a lot of developed countries, with less stigma attached to it.
More women work and have a career and so put this before having a family.
People marry later, so there is less
opportunity to have large families.
Children are expensive and people
want a good standard of living (cars,
holidays etc.).
Low infant mortality rates mean
parents have fewer children knowing
they are likely to survive to adulthood.
What are the reasons for low death rate?
Advances in modern medicine
(technology and more sophisticated
drugs).
Vaccinations to prevent disease
(measles and flu).
Clean drinking water prevents disease like cholera and typhoid.
A balanced diet is available to people (variety of nutrients and protein).
Better pensions and good care for the elderly means that people are given the means by which they can live longer.
Good sanitation means that disease
cannot spread as easily.
