Question

5. Give reasons for the increase in world population.​

Answer 1

Answer:

This rapid growth increase was mainly caused by a decreasing death rate (more rapidly than birth rate), and particularly an increase in average human age. By 2000 the population counted 6 billion heads, however, population growth (doubling time) started to decline after 1965 because of decreasing birth rates.

Answer 2

Answer:

As mentioned, poverty is also an underlying cause of rapid population growth. Social factors are at the base of both poverty and population growth. It's those social factors that require our intervention: via investments in education and (reproductive) health care.

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