GLOBAL POPULATION

Question 1

Which eight countries will account for over half of the projected global population increase by 2050?

Answer 1

India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, the Philippines, and Egypt.

Question 2

What country surpassed China as the world’s most populous nation?what year?

Answer 2

India in 2023

Question 3

How many countries are projected to experience a population increase (Population Matters, 2023).

Answer 3

Sixty-one

Question 4

One of the obstacles to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals and enhancing the population’s education and health.

Answer 4

Rapid population increase

Question 5

What nations are with high fertility rates and will contribute significantly up to the next century?

Answer 5

majority of African nations, Sub-Saharan Africa

Question 6

It will result in a large number of people entering their childbearing years.

Answer 6

Increases in healthcare access, rising life expectancy, and falling child mortality.

Question 7

It stem from the burning of fossil fuels and the manufacture of cement. They include carbon dioxide produced during the consumption of solid, liquid, and gas fuels and gas flaring.

Answer 7

Carbon dioxide emissions

Question 8

What will happen if there are uncontrolled carbon dioxide consumption emissions?

Answer 8

More greenhouse gases in the atmosphere: Carbon dioxide traps heat, and higher emissions contribute to a stronger greenhouse effect, leading to a rise in global temperatures.

Question 9

It has a faster rate of population increase.

Answer 9

Global south

Question 10

It have higher rates of consumption, resource use, and carbon emissions.

Answer 10

wealthier nations

Question 11

Expected population growth in the UN’s least-developed countries by 2050.

Answer 11

An increase from just over 1 billion to 1.76 billion.

Question 12

Factors Influencing Population Growth

Answer 12

Fertility Rates, Fertility Rates, & International Migration

Question 13

It is predicted to decline from 2.3 to 2.1 children per woman by 2050, having a significant impact on future population growth (World Population Prospects, 2022).

Answer 13

Fertility Rates

Question 14

The life expectancy at birth is predicted to rise from 72.8 years in 2019 to 77.2 years in 2050, but there will still be significant regional differences.

Answer 14

Increasing Longevity

Question 15

Due to high rates of infant and maternal mortality, violence, war, and the HIV epidemic, the least developed nations have a life expectancy that is?

Answer 15

7 years lower than the average for the world.

Question 16

It can significantly affect population size in nations that send or receive substantial numbers of economic migrants and refugees.

Answer 16

International Migration

Question 17

According to the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations, there were 281 million international migrants in 2020, which means that?

Answer 17

3.6% of the world’s population did not reside in their country of birth.

Question 18

What continents have the most international migrants?

Answer 18

Europe and Asia

Question 19

It has more international migrants than any other country.

Answer 19

United States

Question 20

rose to a new high of 89.4 million in 2020

Answer 20

The number of displaced people in the world.

Question 21

What do you call those people who were forced to leave their homes because of conflict, violence, or other disasters but still live in their country of birth.

Answer 21

Internally displaced people migrants

Question 22

Asylum seekers and refugees are?

Answer 22

international migrants

Question 23

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Answer 23

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