Population Growth
Describe and give reasons for the rapid increase in the world’s population
Population Growth
Describe and give reasons for the rapid increase in the world’s population
Describe and explain global population growth between 10,000BC and 2000 (3 + 3 marks)
TASK: Label the diagram above with information from below
Falling birth rates due to:
Family planning
Contraceptives
Sterilisation
Abortion
Government incentives
Lower infant mortality rate - less need to have more children
Increased industrialisation and mechanisation - fewer workers needed
Increased desire for material possessions, less for large families
Emancipation of women, more women follow a career and have children later, or not at all
Falling death rates due to:
Improved medical care
Vaccinations
Hospitals
Doctors
New drugs and procedures
Improved sanitation and water supply
Improvements in food production
quality
quantity
Improved transport to move food, doctors etc.
Declining child mortality
Over-population and Under-population
Explain the causes and consequences of over-population and under-population
Over-population and Under-population
Explain the causes and consequences of over-population and under-population
USA - Mexico Border
crude birth rate crude death rate total fertility rate natural increase
infant mortality rate child mortality rate life expectancy net migration rate
TASK
- Research and define the key terms above and write them in your notes. Highlight/underline.
- Copy table 1.6 into your notes
- Calculate population growth for Italy and Mexico
- Read pp 12-14 IGCSE Geo Book
- Copy table 1.7 into your notes
- Use the case study information for Australia and Bangladesh (p 14) to complete the table
COUNTRY PROFILE presentation
Create a presentation showing the population profile of your country of origin.
Include:
- A graph showing population in 1900, 1950, 2000 and 2014. You must make this.
- Data showing the birth rate, fertility rate and death rate. Calculate natural increase.
- The number of immigrants that arrived in your country last year.
- The top two countries from where these migrants came from.
- Why they left their country of origin.
- The number of emigrants that left your country last year.
- The top two destinations for emigrants.
- Why they left to go to these countries.
- Information on national population policy
Change in Population Size
Explain how birth rate, death rate and migration contribute to the population of a country increasing or declining
Change in Population Size
Explain how birth rate, death rate and migration contribute to the population of a country increasing or declining
Natural Population Change
Give reasons for contrasting rates of natural population change. Impacts of social, economic and other factors (including government policies, HIV/AIDS) on birth and death rates.
Natural Population Change
Give reasons for contrasting rates of natural population change. Impacts of social, economic and other factors (including government policies, HIV/AIDS) on birth and death rates.
Population Policy
Describe and evaluate pro-natalist and anti-natalist population policies
Population Policy
Describe and evaluate pro-natalist and anti-natalist population policies
Fertility rates in many high income countries are falling below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. Suggest 3 reasons why this might be a problem for the future of countries like Switzerland.
PRO-NATALIST POLICY
Pro-natalist policies attempt to increase fertility rates by offering incentives to families for having more children. Suggest three ways that governments could
FRANCE’S PRO-NATALIST POLICY (Source)
In 1939, the French passed the “Code de la famille”, a complex piece of pro-natalist legislation. The pro-natalist methods in the policy included:
Offering cash incentives to mothers who stayed at home to care for children.
Subsidising holidays.
Banning the sale of contraceptives (repealed in 1967).
Incentives offered in the policy included:
Payment of up to 1064 EUR to couples having their third child.
Generous maternity grants.
Family allowances to increase the purchasing power of three child families.
Maternity leave on near full pay for 20 weeks for the first child to 40 weeks or more for the third child.
100% mortgage and preferential treatment in the allocation of three bedroom council flats.
Full tax benefits to parents until the youngest child reaches 18.
30% fare reduction on all public transport for three child families.
Pension schemes for mothers/housewives.
Child-orientated development policies e.g. provisioning of creches, day nurseries etc.
Depending on the family’s income, childcare costs from virtually nothing to around €500 a month for the most well off of families.
Nursing mothers are encourage to work part-time or take a weekly day off work.
Create a poster campaign to encourage people to have a 3rd child.
Your poster should include at least 6 incentives from France’s pro-natalist policy designed to increase fertility rates.
Include images and facts which help to explain the incentives.
Demographic Transition Model
Explain how social, economic and political factors influence birth and death rates
Demographic Transition Model
Explain how social, economic and political factors influence birth and death rates
task
- Using coloured pens, recreate the demographic model. Stick in your notes.
- Add two example countries for each stage.
- Read pp 14-15
- Describe what the demographic transition model is.
- Explain the factors affecting population change using the diagram on p 15.