Population Flashcards
(14 cards)
Low birth rate (reasons)
- Later marriages
- Woman want to focus on their career
- Children are expensive to raise
- The couples want a disposable income
- Contraception is widely available
High birth rate
- High infant mortality
- Does not have access to contraception
- Couples need children as a source of labour.
- Religious beliefs and traditions to promote large families.
- Parents need children to look after them when born
Infant mortality
The number of babies who do not survive to the age of 1 per 1,000 live births.
Life expectancy
the number of years of a person can expect to live.
Population pyramid
Wide base= high birth rate
Taper end= high death rate
Middle is wider= people are doing more work
High death rate
- there is no clean water, which causes disease to spread over.
- bad sanitisation
- poor health care system (not good medication)
- less access to food.
- the pensions might be not enough for people.
- don’t have access to vaccinations
Low death rate
- good health care system.
- easy to access the hospitals and pharmacies.
- pensions
- Regular access to clean water leads to no disease to spread.
- improved diets (improved protein and nutrients)
- good sanitisation
- advanced medical care like vaccinations, and antibiotic surgery.
- health living campaigns and smoking, anti-drinking, eating well (healthy living campaigns)
what is GNP?
It’s a goods given by country divided by the total population to give average income for each citizen
What can GNP tell us about a country?
If it’s high GNP that means country have more wealth.
What can only GNP NOT tell us about a country?
It’s a mask that hides not good things about a country
Natural growth rate
difference between in your birth and dearth rate.
if GNP is high
- the country is rich.
- many industries producing high level of value goods.
- more hospitals and schools
who has the most highest death rate in the world.
south Sudan
for finding why the BR or DR are high low or anything else. you need to write on what?
Food
Diet
Disease
Water
Medical care
Housing
