sec 2 na high population growth rate
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High Population Growth rate
Workbook Pg 17 to 22
High population growth rate
• A growth rate that exceeds (more than) 2 per cent annually.
• Leading to a rapid increase in population.
• This occurs mostly in poorer countries.
Causes of high population growth rate
• High BR / Increase in BR• Low DR / Decrease in DR
Factors causing high population growth rate
• Improved in health care• Compulsory immunization to give babies a
better chance of survival
Factors causing high population growth rate
• Improved in health care• Better trained doctors and nurses• Better medical equipment
Factors causing high population growth rate
• Lack of family planning• Unaware of birth control methods
• As they are illiterate (uneducated) and unable to access the information
Factors causing high population growth rate
• Preference for boys• Regard sons as a valuable asset
• (strong and able to work in the farms)
• Sons are able to retain the family name and provide for parents
Factors causing high population growth rate
• Children as a source of labour• Especially in poor farming communities• Or they can work elsewhere to earn extra
income for the family.
Factors that causes low death rate
• Better living condition
• Improved in health care
• (Increase life expectancy)
• Access to nutritious food
• (lower infant mortality rate)
• Access to clean water
Factors that causes low death rate
• Peace and stability• No civil war or riots
Consequences of a high population growth
• Overpopulation
• When the resources in the country cannot support the people and
• provide them with proper living.
Unemployment• Occurs when there are more
people than there jobs available• People living in the rural area
(countryside) will go to the cities to look for job.• Will lead to overcrowding
Overcrowding
• People living in the rural area (countryside) will go to the cities to look for job
• Formation of slums & squatters
• Crime rate will increase
• Pollution
Overcrowding
Can you compare the background and the foreground?
Widespread of poverty
• No job, no income to obtain (find) proper housing, food, water, medical care & education.
• Being Illiterate & suffering from ill health, they will remain unemployed and poor.• Leading to high crime rates
India’s solution to high population growth rate
• Population (2001) – 1 billion• Population (2011) – 1.2 billion • Population (2050) – 1.6 billion
Measures (solutions)
• Incentive for smaller families• Education for women• Raising standard of living
Incentive for smaller families
• Reproduction and child health programme introduced
• Public is made aware that living condition will get worse and quality of life will decrease when population becomes too large.• Incentives such as • Housing• Education allowances
Education for women
• Raises the status of women in society.• Give opportunity for women to be
employed and earn an income.• Educated women are likely to marry
later and have fewer children.• Therefore decrease birth rate.
Raising standard of living (living condition)
• Improve health care• Better housing• Proper sanitation• An adequate supply of food and water
• Would you want to live this condition?
• Do you dare to use this toilet bowl?
• Do you want to ask this lady for water to drink?