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Competition Refresher
Competition Refresher Published this article page no 14 the people of a country are its real wealth. it is they who make use of the countrys resources and decide its policies. ultimately a country is known by its people. it is important to know how many women and men a country has how many children are born each year how many people die and how whether they live in cities or villages can they read or write and what work do they do these are what you will study ...
Competition Refresher
Competition Refresher Published this article page no 15 the population of the world is unevenly distributed. the remark of george b. cressey about the population of asia that asia has many places where people are few and few place where people are very many is true about the pattern of population distribution of the world also. patterns of population distribution and density help us to understand the demographic characteristics of any area. the term population ...
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Competition Refresher Published this article page no 16 the population growth or population change refers to the change in number of inhabitants of a territory during a specific period of time. this change may be positive as well as negative. it can be expressed either in terms of absolute numbers or in terms of percentage. population change in an area is an important indicator of economic development social upliftment and historical and cultural background of ...
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Competition Refresher Published this article page no 17 it took more than a million years for the human population to attain the one billion mark. but it took only 12 years for it to rise from 5 billion to 6 billion. see the table 2.1 carefully which shows that doubling time of world population is reducing fast. there is a great variation among regions in doubling their population. table 2.2 shows that developed countries are taking more time to double their po...
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Competition Refresher Published this article page no 18 a small increase in population is desirable in a growing economy. however population growth beyond a certain level leads to problems. of these the depletion of resources is the most serious. population decline is also a matter of concern. it indicates that resources that had supported a population earlier are now insufficient to maintain the population. the deadly hiv/aids epidemics in africa and some parts of the commonwealth of independent states (cis) and asia have pushed up death rates and reduced average life expectancy....