Measuring Population

Question 1

What may cause the population to decrease?

Answer 1

• desire for smaller families
• cost of bringing up a child - expensive
• access to fertility drugs and contraceptives
• less children needed to support families

Question 2

Name 3 factors that have contributed to decrease death rates

Answer 2

• Vaccination and immunisation- to prevent pandemic and epidemic diseases out breaking to a high level
• Clean drinking water and sewage disposal
• Better diets - ‘5 a day’

Question 3

Name factors that contribute to increase birth rates

Answer 3

• Access to fertility drugs
• Better hygiene in hospitals
• Children needed to support families
• I.V.F

Question 4

Name factors that contribute to increase death rates

Answer 4

• No vaccinations
• Poor diets
• No medicines
• Dirty drinking water
• Bad healthcare
• Sewage
• Less hygienic housing
• War

Question 5

Name factors that contribute to increase migration

Answer 5

• War
• Economic problems in the country
• Lack of farmland
• Famine
• Favourable immigration laws
• Poverty
• Unemployment

Question 6

Name factors that contribute to decrease birth rates

Answer 6

• Cost of bringing up child
• Desire for smaller families
• Access to contraceptives
• Government policies (China’s one child policy)

Question 7

Name factors that contribute to decrease immigration

Answer 7

• Country closing borders
• No war
• Damage to labour market
• Development of own country
• No famine or poverty
• More farmland

Question 8

What may cause the population to increase?

Answer 8

• clean drinking water and sewage disposal
• better healthcare
• modern medicines
• better diets - ‘5 a day’
• vaccinations and immunisations
• more hygienic housing