Population Flashcards
What is population distribution?
How the population is in a pattern or spread out around the world.
What is population density?
The number of people per km2.
What does densely populated mean?
The number of people living in an area is greater than 100 per km2.
What does sparsely populated mean?
The number of people living in an area is less than 10 people per km2.
What are birth rates?
Birth rates are the number of live births per 1,000 people per year.
What are death rates?
Death rates are the number of deaths per 1,000 people per year.
What is population growth rate?
Population growth rate or natural increase is the difference between the birth and death rate, birth rate subtract death rate.
What is overpopulation?
When a population exceeds the carrying capacity, they run out of resources.
What is carrying capacity?
Largest number of people that a given area can support with the space and resources available.
What are consequences of overpopulation?
Not enough food and supplies for everyone, spread of disease, riots and more.
Why was China’s one child policy needed?
-The population was to big, had the population grown any larger, healthcare, education and other things would have become over run and unaccessible to many.
-Economic growth in China wasn’t as high as the government wanted and with less children the population would have more time to focus on work.
How many more people would have been born without the one child policy?
250 to 300 million more people would have been born by now had the policy not been implemented.
How did the one child policy work?
You were only allowed to have one child and if you had a second you were forced to abort or had to pay large fines. Lots of people had a second child but didn’t register them meaning the child couldn’t receive free education or healthcare.
What were the benefits of the one child policy?
-There have been no famines since 1950s.
-Women received better healthcare and education.
-More jobs are available due to smaller population and their wages are higher.
What are the problems with the one child policy?
-Gender imbalance meaning men can’t find wives and crime and suicide levels rise.
-The lost generation because female babies have been aborted, orphaned, killed or abandoned.
-Ageing population causing a rising demand on healthcare and a shortage of workers.
-Female infanticide from forced abortions breaching female rights.
-Little emperor syndrome which is spoiled only children.
How was India’s family planning policy different to the one child policy?
This policy wasn’t forced and was just made very attractive.
Why was India’s policy not enforced?
The Indian government has to be elected unlike the Chinese government meaning they have to please the population to keep ruling.
What did the government use to promote family planning?
It used campaigns in the media such as tv and newspapers.
How were the population encouraged to reduce population by the Indian government?
They were encouraged to use contraception and space children apart.
What was India’s fertility rate before the policy?
The fertility rate was 6.
What is India’s fertility rate today?
2.18 is the fertility rate.
Does India have an ageing population or gender imbalance?
No it doesn’t because it wasn’t forced to do anything so they could slowly decrease instead of very quickly.
