Micah I.

Guinto 04/26/2021
BET-CpET 2E NS Human Population

Assessment

Chapter Review

1. List three factors that account for the rapid increase in the world’s human population over the
past 200 years and summarize the three major population growth trends recognized by
demographers.

• The three factors that account for the rapid increase in the world’s human population are
the births (fertility), deaths (mortality), and migration.
• In ongoing many years, the pace of populace increase has eased back, however the total
population is yet developing
• Demographers perceive that, geologically, human population increase is unevenly
distributed
• Trend in human population development is the development of individuals from country
zones to urban areas

2. What are the three variables that affect the growth and decline of human populations. How can
we calculate the population change of an area?

• One of the variables that affects the growth and decline of human population is the cost of
raising and educating the child, birth and fertility rates on the developed country are more
lower than the birth and fertility rates of countries’ that is less-developed.
• Another variable that affects the growth and decline human population is the urbanization.
People who lives in urban areas have a better access to family planning services. As a
result, they tend to have less children than those people who lives in a rural area of a poor
countries.
• The third variable is education and employment opportunities for women. Women who can
study and work tend to have less fertility rate than those women who lives in less-developed
country. Women with no education or work outside their homes tend to have more children.
• We can calculate the population change of an area by subtracting the number of people
leaving a population (through death and emigration) from the number entering it (through
birth and immigration) during a specified period of time (usually 1 year). Population
Change = (Births + Immigration) − (Deaths + Emigration)

3. Define the total fertility rate (TFR), life expectancy and infant mortality rate and explain how
they affect the population size of a country.

• Total fertility rate or TFR is the measurement of the number of children a woman can have
during her reproductive years. high TFR leads to rapid increase in population growth.
• Life expectancy is an indicator of the number of years a person can expect to live.
Increasing life expectancy leads to decreasing rate of death which will result in increasing
population size.
 • Infant mortality rate is a measurement of the death rates of babies under the age of one. it
can be measured by dividing the number of deaths by the number of live births during the
year, and then multiplied by 1,000. If the mortality of children is reduced, then the
population growth in a country will slow down.

4. What is migration? What factors can promote migration?

• Migration happens when an individual or group of people or animals moves to another

place or habitat. Most people migrate to another country or area in order to find better
opportunities in terms of employment and economic improvement, but many are moving
to another country because of religious persecution ethnic conflicts, political oppression,
or war.

5. What is the age structure of a population? Explain how age structure affects population growth
and economic growth.

• The age structure population is a process of determining if there is an increase or decrease

to the population of the country by showing a number or percentages of individuals in
young, middle, and older age groups in that population. There are three categories in age
structure population and those are the prereproductive (ages 0–14), reproductive (ages 15–
44), and postreproductive (ages 45 and older).
• A country with a huge number of its people that is youthful than age 15 will encounter
rapid increase in population growth except if passing rates rise strongly. Due to this
demographic momentum, the quantity of births in such a nation will ascend for a very long
while regardless of whether woman have an average of just a two of kids each, because of
the enormous number of women entering their prime reproductive years

6. What is the demographic transition and what are its four stages? Explain how the reduction of
poverty and empowerment of women can help countries to slow their population growth. What is
family planning and how can it help to stabilize populations?

• Demographic transition is a progression of stages that a nation goes through while changing
from non-industrial to industrial. The idea is used to determine how population growth and
economic development of a country are connected.
• Reduction of poverty will help countries to slow their population growth by having an
economic development. Demographers have a hypothesis that a country that is already
industrial tends to have slower population growth than the country that is not yet developed.
• Based on the studies, empowerment of women can help countries to slow their population
growth because women who are educated tends to have the ability to control their own
fertility. Women who lives in a society that doesn’t suppress their rights tend to have less
children than women who lives in a society that won’t allow them to have their education
and job opportunities.
Critical Thinking

1. Do you think that the global population of 7.1 billion is too large? Explain. If your answer was
yes, what do you think should be done to slow human population growth? If your answer was no,
do you believe that there is a population size that would be too big? Explain. Do you think that the
population of the country where you live is too large? Explain.

• I don't imagine that having a worldwide population of 7.1 billion is excessively huge.
population is determined as the complete number of people living in a nation, city, or any
locale or territory. I additionally don't accept that there will come a period that the
population size would be too much, on the grounds that it is assessed that in consistently 2
out of 10 may die and furthermore the conduct of individuals change when there is a
financial motivating forces involved.

2. Identify a major local, national, or global environmental problem, and describe the role that
population growth plays in this problem.

• A growing agricultural base to take care of an extending total population accompanies its
own intricacies. As the worldwide population growths, more food is required. Such
measures might be met through more intensive farming, or through deforestation to make
new ranch lands, which thus can have adverse results. agriculture is liable for around 80%
of deforestation, around the world.

3. Some people think that our most important environmental goal should be to sharply reduce the
rate of population growth in less-developed countries, where at least 92% of the world’s population
growth is expected to take place between now and 2050. Others argue that the most serious
environmental problems stem from high levels of resource consumption per person in more-
developed countries, which have much larger ecological footprints per person than do less-
developed countries. What is your view on this issue? Explain.

• It would require the two things to happen all the while in order for the impacts to be
effective in the long term. Individuals in developing nations need to pointedly decrease
their pace of population growth (possibly through education/access to family planning, and
so forth) Expanding numbers in non-industrial nations will bring about expanded usage of
consistently waning resources. at the same time individuals in the developed world need to
assess their over-immoderate ways of life and make changes to help battle "affluenza" and
decrease their ecological footprint. Individuals in created nations can't expect that the
developing countries should make a move when they are not ready to act themselves.