Topic One (1.1): Population Dynamics: IGCSE GEOGRAPHY SAMPLE.
Population Growth Essay Population growth today has become a serious matter of concern for the world. The world population has been consistently increasing at an alarming rate and is estimated to be around 7.7 billion in 2019. Uncontrolled population growth leads to rapid urbanization and depletion of resources.
United Nations believes that stability to the earth’s population would arrive in 2050 with 9.1 billion people. Strangely enough, the earth population was 3.3 billion in 1965. Of the 157 added to the world population every minute, only 4 are in the developed countries with 153 in the backward regions.
An Essay on the Principle of Population An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers. Thomas Malthus London Printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard 1798.
In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population in which he argued that population growth will inevitably outpace food production, resulting in widespread famine. Part A (4 points: 1 point for each reason identified (ID) and 1 explanation point per ID).
Specifically, the carrying capacity is the maximum population size that the environment can sustain indefinitely given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment. Question 2.
It had an annual population growth rate of 1.2%, and had one of the youngest populations in the world. 65% of the population was below the age of 35, and it is expected that by 2022 the average.
The population of the country has shown an increasing trend in the past years. From 1930 to 2000 the percentage population rise of the country was around 3.75%. However, since 1970 the population growth rate of the country is falling constantly. The fall in the population growth rate has been widely attributed to the declining fertility within the country.