Demographics

Question 1

What is the population pyramid?

Answer 1

Pyramid which is comprised of a series of horizontal bar graphs which represent different ages.

Question 2

Where is the male population shown on the population pyramid?

Answer 2

Left of the vertical axis

Question 3

What does the population pyramid demonstrate?

Answer 3

Demonstrates the age and sex structure of a population

Question 4

What else does the population pyramid demonstrate?

Answer 4

Population dynamics

Question 5

Where is the working age depicted on the population pyramid?

Answer 5

The middle, usually between 15 and 60

Question 6

What does a large number of young population indicate?

Answer 6

High birth rate

Question 7

What do large numbers of older population indicate?

Answer 7

High life expectancy

Question 8

What do bulges indicate?

Answer 8

Higher fertility than normal or mass immigration event.

Question 9

What are the categories the population is usually divided into?

Answer 9

Children, under 15
Adults, between 15 and 64
Older Adults, above 65

Question 10

What is the dependency ratio?

Answer 10

The ratio of the dependent part of the population (children and older adults), to the productive part (adults)

Question 11

What has happened to the 65+ ratio in developed countries?

Answer 11

It has risen

Question 12

In which countries has the 0 to 14 ratio decreased?

Answer 12

Developed countries

Question 13

What is Qatar’s dependency ratio?

Answer 13

Dropped from 80 to 18

Question 14

Where us the dependency ratio 50?

Answer 14

Europe and Arab nations

Question 15

What is the ratio like in conflict or poor regions?

Answer 15

About 80

Question 16

What are the three pyramid models?

Answer 16

Expanding population
Stable population
Contracting population

Question 17

What is an expanding population?

Answer 17

High crude birth rates, usually in developing countries

Question 18

What model represents a country with crude birth and death rates?

Answer 18

Stable populations, usually in developed countries

Question 19

What is a contracting population?

Answer 19

Crude death rates exceed the birth rate, usually seen in developed countries

Question 20

What is the demographic transition?

Answer 20

Illustrates the population growth in terms of changes in both birth and mortality rates.

Question 21

How do you calculate the crude death rate?

Answer 21

(Number of deaths in a calendar year divided by the midyear population) x 1000

Question 22

How do you calculate crude birth rate?

Answer 22

(Number of births in a calendar year divided by midyear population) x 1000

Question 23

What is termed as general fertility rate?

Answer 23

When the denominator in the crude birth rate is replaced by the female adult population

Question 24

What is the total fertility rate?

Answer 24

The sum of age-specific births among adult females multiplied by 5

Question 25

What is considered an insufficient total fertility rate.

Answer 25

Less than 2000

Question 26

What is life expectancy (at birth) influenced by?

Answer 26

Infant mortality rate

Question 27

What does a high life expectancy portray?

Answer 27

Goof indicator of health and socio-economic development

Question 28

How is population growth calculated?

Answer 28

Growth rate = crude birth rate - crude death rate

Question 29

What is stage 1 of demographic transition model?

Answer 29

Extremely high birth and death rates

Question 30

What do extremely high birth and death rates indicate?

Answer 30

That there is little to no change in population

Question 31

The Black Plague, Pandemics, and Wars are all examples of what kind of demographic transition stage?

Answer 31

Stage 1

Question 32

What is the second stage of demographic transition model?

Answer 32

Early expanding, receding pandemics: high birth rates but declining death rates

Question 33

What usually causes stage 2?

Answer 33

Advances in medicine and hygiene.

Question 34

What happens in stage 2?

Answer 34

Population growth is high

Question 35

What is the third stage?

Answer 35

Late expanding and non-communicable diseases: declining birth rates and continued declining death rates

Question 36

What is stage 4?

Answer 36

Low stationary, delayed communicable diseases: low birth rates and low death rates

Question 37

What is stage 5?

Answer 37

Contracting: countries that have undergone de-industrialisation

Question 38

What happens in stage 5 and why?

Answer 38

A natural decrease in population due to birth rates falling below death rates.

Question 39

Which country is the most notable to be in stage 5?

Answer 39

Japan

Question 40

What is a threat in stage 5?

Answer 40

Re-emergence of neglected tropical diseases

Question 41

What stage is Qatar in?

Answer 41

Stage 3

Question 42

Why is dependency rate in Qatar low?

Answer 42

Anomaly created by mainly male migrant population but also female migrant population masking the shape of the expanding population