Change in a population size

Question 1

What are the 3 factors that affect population size and structure?

Answer 1

• Social
• Economic
• Political

Question 2

What are the 4 social factors?

Answer 2

Education, migration, healthcare and lifestyle

Question 3

In what year was the NHS set up?

Answer 3

1948

Question 4

What did the introduction of the NHS lead to?

Answer 4

Increased life expectancy

Question 5

What was educated and therefore beneficial to life expectancy?

Answer 5

The health effects of smoking and alcohol

Question 6

What are the economic factors?

Answer 6

Availability of jobs and wage levels

Question 7

What do economic factors lead to?

Answer 7

Migration to and from regions and countries in order to find a job

Question 8

What attracts many Eastern European countries to the UK?

Answer 8

Higher wages

Question 9

What are some population factors?

Answer 9

Government population policies and civil war

Question 10

What is an example of a population policy?

Answer 10

China’s One-Child policy. Which has reduced the rate of natural increase in the country but has led to an ageing population and more males than females.

Question 11

What can a civil war change in a country?

Answer 11

The age and sex structure of a country, since there are more men of a certain age dying out at war

Question 12

Are birth and death rates high or low in a HIC?

Answer 12

Low

Question 13

Where have birth rates fallen below death rates?

Answer 13

In Japan and Germany