The doubling time for a population with an annual growth rate of 0.07 is
10 years
In July, 1999 the world's human population passed
6 billion
The world growth rate is about 1.4 percent. Therefore, the population is currently doubling about every ___ years.
50
Human population growth most closely resembles
J-shaped growth curve
India's population, currently the second largest in the world, is
expected to pass China's population this century
Most of the world's human settlements are clustered
along coastlines and rivers
Crude birth rates are measured in terms of the number of children born
per 1000 people each year
The list of the 12 slowest growing countries has changed in the past decade from including western Europe and Asian countries such as Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore to including eastern Europe (specifically "Eastern Block") countries. How is this change
Countries with a low fertility rate usually have high human development indices
Demographers usually measure mortality in terms of
deaths per 1000 persons per year
The difference between "total growth rate" and "natural increase" is that total growth rates
include immigration and emigration as well as births and deaths
Which of the following countries are facing serious problems because of low birth rates?
Japan and Taiwan
The demographic transition refers to a country's change from
high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates
The message from author Garret Hardin's "lifeboat ethics" is that
helping poor people will simply increase their rate of reproduction
The graph indicates that more children die
when their mothers are illiterate
Norplant is a trade name for
an implanted source of contraceptive hormones
Which of the following is a mechanical barrier to conception?
condoms
RU 486 is a
pill that prevents fetal implantation
Male contraceptives are less common than female contraceptives because
men protest about possible hormonal changes and a repressed sexual drive
So far, the most successful and popular solution(s) to global overpopulation has/have been
the provision of family planning services and education