Question

Give any five specific reason how illiteracy plays an important role to increase the population size.

Answer 1

Answer:

Girls grow up to become housewives because they can't be employed. Housewives have more children on average, because of lack of knowledge about reproduction and their greater time at home to raise kids. Children enter a low income household, where boys are favoured to be educated, starting at 1.

Answer 2

Answer:

Five specific reasons for an increase in the population size due to illiteracy are poverty, less use of contraceptives, involvement of females in household work, superstitious beliefs, and unawareness about the impact of overpopulation.

Explanation:

a. Poverty

• Usually, illiterate people are jobless or paid less due to which they are confined to houses rather than going outside to engage themselves with work.
• Hence, there is a high chance of people involving in sexual activities causing population growth.

b. Less use of contraceptives

• People are deprived of knowledge about contraceptives or about the use of birth control devices.

• Thus, the lack of awareness about these mediums leads to unwanted childbirth.

 c. Involvement of females in household work

• The belief in people that women are not meant to work outside or earn money makes females stay at home and raise the kids in the family causing an increase in the birth rate.

d. Superstitious beliefs

• Controlling the birth rate and people believing the child is a gift of God to them is another prominent cause of an increase in population size.

e. Lack of awareness about the impact of overpopulation

• People are unaware of population growth being problematic to society.
• Thus, it is so essential to teach people about the effects of overpopulation to control for obtaining quality of life in every family.