Population
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- Created on: 29-03-15 15:49
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- Population
- Ageing Populations
- Poblems
- More people needing care
- Less young people
- Small working population
- Healthcare and pensions overstetched
- Housing and education needs change
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Italy
- Causes
- Women working and having an education
- People want to spend money on other things e.g entertainment
- More contraception
- Less marriages
- Poblems
- Youthful Populations
- Causes
- Poor family planning
- Few women work
- Disease e.g AIDS
- Poor healthcare
- Lots of children due to high infant mortality & children for work
- War & natural disaster
- Problems
- Pressure on schooling
- A large dependant sector of populaion not working
- Pressure on local resources
- Pressure on health services e.g hospitals
- Countries
- India-literacy rate 60% and Cambodia is 69%
- Kenya
- Causes
- Population Policies
- China One-Child Policy
- Was implemented in 1979
- One child per couple
- Policy rigidly enforced
- Have to be married
- Women over 17, men over 18
- Has increased abortions, abandonments and an illegal baby trade
- Family Planning
- Fewer children encourged
- Free contraception offered
- Sexual education
- Kerala, India
- Educating women can reduce child birth
- Better healthcare means more chance of infant survival so less births
- More employment takes people's focus off having children
- China One-Child Policy
- Population Pyramids
- LEDC
- High birth rate
- Low life expectancy
- High infant mortality
- High death rate
- Stages 1 & 2 of the DTM
- MEDC
- Low birth rate
- Low death rate
- Large economically active population
- High life expectancy
- Stages 3 & 4 of DTM
- LEDC
- Demographic Transition Model
- DTM is a model that shows how population changes over time
- Key Words
- Birth Rate
- Death Rate
- Infant Mortality Rate
- Migration
- Push and Pull Factors
- Poland to the UK
- Push and Pull Factors
- Ageing Populations
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