RAPID POPULATION INCREASE

Question 1

What is the death rate per 1000 in The Gambia?

Answer 1

It is 12.03 deaths per 1000 per year.

Question 2

What is the birth rate per 1000 in The Gambia?

Answer 2

It is 37.31 per 1000 per year.

Question 3

What is the percentage population increase in Gambia?

Answer 3

It is 2% per year.

Question 4

What is meant by subsistence farming?

Answer 4

People who farm the land to feed themselves.

Question 5

In which stage of the DTM is the country of Gambia?

Answer 5

Moving into stage 2.

Question 6

What percentage of Gambia’s population is under 25?

Answer 6

64%

Question 7

What is meant by infant mortality?

Answer 7

The number of children that die per 1000 per year before they reach the age of 5.

Question 8

What is meant by polygamy?

Answer 8

It means that men can have multiple wives.

Question 9

Which case study would you use to illustrate a country with a rapid population increase?

Answer 9

The country of Niger.

Question 10

What is the main culture of of people in southern Niger?

Answer 10

It is Hausa.

Question 11

What is the infant mortality rate in Niger?

Answer 11

It is 250/1000 per year.

Question 12

At what age do many women in Niger marry at?

Answer 12

It can be as young as 14.

Question 13

Why does Gambia have a youthful population?

Answer 13

High birth rates
No contraception; don’t discuss family planning
Children are seen as an economic benefit

Question 14

What is being done to ensure Gambians have a brighter future?

Answer 14

Stopping deforestation, protecting the forest
Better health care
Education about family planning/birth control
More girls go to school = less children if get jobs
Raising awareness about contraception
Free meal at school

Question 15

What is the GDP of Gambia?

Answer 15

£1000 per year

UK is £35000

Question 16

What percentage of Hausa women use contraception?

Answer 16

It is 5%.

Question 17

What is meant by fertility rate?

Answer 17

It is the average number of children that a women gives birth to.

Question 18

Who looks after older people in Niger?

Answer 18

Their children look after them.

Question 19

What economic reason encourages subsistence farmers to have many children?

Answer 19

So that they can work on the land as they cannot afford to buy machinery.

Question 20

Why do few Gambians use contraception?

Answer 20

There is no education about it.

Question 21

Explain why women who marry at a 14 years of age results in a rapid increase in population?

Answer 21

It gives the women more time to have a large family (on average 7.5 children).

Question 22

Explain why high rates of infant mortality results in a high birth rate?

Answer 22

It encourages families to have more babies than they need to ensure that enough survive to work on the land and to look after them in old age.

Question 23

What is meant by a landless labourer?

Answer 23

A person who is paid a small wage to works on the land that is owned by a rich landowner.

Question 24

List one economic reason that results in Niger having a high birth rate?

Answer 24

So children can work on the land.

Question 25

List five cultural reasons encourage men to have large families?

Answer 25

Men in Niger who have large families are considered to be of a higher status within their village.

Question 26

What are the problems of a youthful population?

Answer 26

too young to work; not many employment opportunities; strain on resources (e.g deforestation); schools are overcrowded; high dependency ratio; high rural to urban migration