Overpopulation Flashcards
Some causes and contributing factors include :
high birth rate, high immigration rate, decreased rate of mortality,
An increase in life expectancy can be the result of improvement in public health
Effects: Unhygienic living conditions,
Housing shortage,
increased illiteracy, decline in education quality
Higher rate of unemployment
Depletion of natural resources
GROWTH OF URBAN SPRAWL
Food and water shortage
Suggestions to control population growth: increasing people’s awareness
Applying family planning and counseling programmes
Initiatives to control birth rate
Ex: giving tax deduction for the couples who have only one or two children
A significent increase in the birth rate
Baby boom
Birth rate
Death rate
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The demographics of the country have changed dramatically in recent years.
No one has exact demographics on (= information about the quantity and characteristics of the people who live in) the area.
Demographics:
1) the number and characteristics of people who live in a particular area or form a particular group, especially in relation to their age, how much money they have and what they spend it on.
2) Demography: the study of people and society in a particular area or particular group, typically used in marketing to decide which products to sell there and how to advertise those products successfully
Having too many people for a particular place
Oberpopulated, POpulous❤️❤️
Opps: Underpopulated, Depopulated
The spread of people living in an area
Population Distribution
A sudden increase in population volume
Population explosion
overcrowded cities/prisons/schools
The world market for
telecommunications is already overcrowded with businesses.
Overcrowding: Congestion
Congested
Figures concerning the population , Births and deaths
Vital statistics
A method of controlling population
One-child-policy
an uninhabited island
An uninhabited place has no people living in it
Controlling the number of children in a family
Family planning
The number of people living per unit of an area
Population density
