Population Flashcards
Natural increase?
birth rate - death rate
Contraception?
Things that control whether you have children or not.
What issues can be caused by rapid population growth?(E,S,P)
- economic
+ falling mortality rate
+ Climate change
+ Pollution
+Healthcare - social
+ Higher risk of pandemics
+ more conflicts
+ Limited resources
+ short- term food scarcity - physical
+ Deforestation for land (houses)
+ More pollution
+ less food
+ more sicknesses
Birth rate?
amount of babies born per 1000 per year.
Death rate?
amount of people dying per 1000 per year.
Fertility rate?
average amount of babies a woman has per year.
Life expectancy?
average age people will live up to in a certain country.
Factors affecting birth rate?
- Wealth
- education
- access to family planning services
Factors affecting death rate?
- Medical healthcare
- Disease
- working conditions
- access to nutrition
Overpopulations causes + impacts?
- less food
- more conflicts
- more sicknesses
- deforestation
- pollution
- overfishing
- damaging the sea.
Underpopulations causes + impacts?
- decline in fertility rates
- shortage of workers
- decline in demand for good services
- lack of immigration.
Positive + negative impacts of population management policies?
Positive:
+ save more resources for other family members, and substitute quantity of children for higher quality of every child.
Negative:
- shrinking workforce
- gender imbalance
- less schools
- less homes
