Population - Case studies

Question 1

What are the government doing in Niger to slow the population growth?

Answer 1

Increase family planning to 20%
Raised the legal age for marrying to 18
Educating women
Information campaigns

Question 2

How fast is the population increasing in Niger?

Answer 2

2.9%

Question 3

Why is there an increase in the death rate in Russia?

Answer 3

Unhealthy lifestyles e.g. Smoking and alcoholism
High HIV and TB
Poor economy

Question 4

Why is there a decrease in the birth rate in Russia?

Answer 4

Alcoholism has caused there to be 10million less men
Less marriage
More divorce
Lots of highly educated women

Question 5

What’s another reason for Russia’s population decline?

Answer 5

High emigration as people seek better lifestyles in Western Europe

Question 6

What impact is the population decline having on Russia?

Answer 6

Less jobs/people working is causing a shrinking economy
“Ghost” villages
Losing power in international politics

Question 7

What’s the government doing to stop the population decline in Russia?

Answer 7

$9200 extra for third child
Healthy living campaign targeting alcoholism
Benefits of having children heavily promoted

Question 8

What’s the problem with China’s overpopulation?

Answer 8

Ageing population
More taxes
Poverty

Question 9

What was the Chinese government’s policy in 1963?

Answer 9

CCP encouraged large families so they would have a strong army and strong China

Question 10

What was the Chinese government’s policy in 1970?

Answer 10

“Longer, Later, Fewer”
Delay first child
Wait longer inbetween children

Question 11

What solutions are there to China’s ageing population?

Answer 11

Emigrate the dependants
Increase BR
Increase retiring age
Bring (immigration) economically active people to support the ageing population

Question 12

When was the “Stop at 2” policy in Singapore?

Answer 12

1965 - 1985

Question 13

What was the “Stop at 2” policy in Singapore?

Answer 13

Extra taxes and no paid maternity for third child
Abortion and voluntary sterilisation legal
Parents with more than 2 children don’t get enrolled in the best schools

Question 14

Why did the Singapore government reverse the policies in 1985?

Answer 14

Low population growth
Heavily ageing population
Educated citizens were having less children

Question 15

What policy did the Singapore government introduce in 1985?

Answer 15

“Have 3 or more”

Question 16

What were the benefits for the educated in the “Have 3 or more” policy?

Answer 16

Tax rebates for third child
Extended sick leave
Priority in the best schools
4 years maternity
Priority in housing

Question 17

What did the “Have 3 or more” policy want to do?

Answer 17

Dis-encourage less educated women from having lots of children
Their children wouldn’t get the best schools
$10 000 was given after voluntary sterilisation after 2nd child

Question 18

What were the problems with the “Have 3 or more” policy in Singapore?

Answer 18

The BR stayed low
Working people wanted more material assets
Late marriage

Question 19

What’s the advantages for Britain for Polish Migration?

Answer 19

Balances out skill shortage (plumbers, decorators, farm hands, brick layers)
Migrants willing to do jobs Britain is lacking in
They work long hours
Britain’s average wage is higher that Poland’s so overcome labour shortage

Question 20

What are the disadvantages for Britain of Polish migration?

Answer 20

Racial tension
Large numbers swamps schools and hospitals
Get jobs locals want

Question 21

What are the advantages for Poland of Polish migration?

Answer 21

Migrants return and bring back skills
Money being sent over to migrants families
BR declines
More development
Less pressure on jobs an resources

Question 22

In Niger why is there rapid population growth?

Answer 22

15 is the legal marrying age 
5% use family planning and contraception 
90% agriculture
Religion and tradition demand children
Children are seen as wealth

Question 23

What are the disadvantages for Poland of Polish migration?

Answer 23

DR rises as just the elderly are left
Lose working force and skilled citizens
Divided families (males migrate to Britain)

Question 24

Why are the Syrian people being forced to migrate?

Answer 24

Syrian civil war
No normal life
Civilians are targeted
Loss of homes 
Fear

Question 25

What are the effects of the Syrian migration on the host countries?

Answer 25

Strain on education system
Drain resources
Difficult to educate the migrants
1/4 of the Lebanese population is refugees
Hostility between the refugees and citizens
Turkey has closed its gates (can’t take anymore)
Drains economy

Question 26

Which countries are the Syrian refugees fleeing to?

Answer 26

Turkey
Lebanon
Jordan

Question 27

What are charities doing to help the Syrian refugees?

Answer 27

Educating them
Children's hospital
Medic centres
Food baskets
UK charity set up largest refugee camp in Syria

Question 28

What are the conditions of the refugee camps for the Syrian refugees?

Answer 28

Tents 
No schools
No heating 
Poor sanitation - open drains
No electricity
Illness and fever (diarrhoea and typhoid fever)
Contaminated water

Question 29

What effect does the conditions have on the Syrian refugees?

Answer 29

Little access to medical care - more disease
Huge rise in premature births
Move often
Work in the fields to gain money (child labour)

Question 30

Where is the Zaarita refugee camp?

Answer 30

Jordan

Question 31

What’s the Zaarita refugee camp like?

Answer 31

Filthy
Cold
Ques to register arrival
Basic tents
Schools are cramped and basic
Refugees sell items in stalls for money

Question 32

What problems has under population caused in Australia?

Answer 32

Shortage of workers
Underdeveloped - too many resources
Taxes being raised to fund retirement
Schools and hospitals don’t have enough people to support them
Not enough people to develop transport systems
Conflicts in cities (Sydney) by foreign workers

Question 33

What are some facts about Australia?

Answer 33

Population of 20 million
Similar size to USA (pop of 300 million)
Many areas empty