Question

Explain the following terms:-(1)Infant mortality (2)Literacy rate (3)Not attendance ratio

Answer 1

1.Infant mortality rate(IMR) indicates the number of children that die before the age of one year as a proportion of thousand live children born in that particular year.

2.Literacy rate measures the proportion of literate population in the 7 and above age group.

3.Net attendance ratio is the total number of children of age group 14 and 15 years attending school as a percentage of total number of children in the same age group

Answer 2

Answer:

Several terms are used in Population Geography to define the various characteristics of the population. Some of them are :

(1)Infant mortality

(2)Literacy rate

(3)Not attendance ratio

Explanation:

(1)Infant mortality- Infant mortality is defined as a child dying before turning one. The number of newborn deaths for every 1,000 live births is known as the infant mortality rate.

(2)Literacy rate- The percentage of adults who are literate in a given country, territory, or geographic area who are 15 years of age or older, expressed as a percentage of the corresponding population overall or for a particular sex, at a particular moment, typically mid-year.

(3)Not attendance ratio- The number of children in the age range of 6 to 10 who attend school as a percentage of all children in the same age range is known as the net attendance ratio.

These terms show the important underpinning of population.

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