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?