Research a developing country (such as Nigeria, Afghanistan, or Uganda) with rapid population growth and find out what factors sustain that growth and why. Explain these factors and assess the likelihood that the fertility rate of this country will drop in the near future.
To determine:
The factors that sustain the rapid growth of developing countries like Nigeria, Afghanistan or Uganda.
Introduction:
The changes in a population number could be due to birth rate, death rate, immigration, and emigration. Birth and immigration lead to add individuals to a population and death and emigration leads to decrease in the number of individuals from a population. A wide gap between the birth and death rate could lead to faster growth in the rate of population.
Explanation of Solution
The population growth of developed countries is characterized by low death and birth rate. Increased food production, improved healthcare, and many other factors contributed to the low death rate. Also, the birth rate increased due to better economic conditions of people and access to birth control measures.
The factors that sustain the rapid growth of developing countries are listed below as:
1. Poverty: Poverty causes malnutrition which results in the increase of death rate. This will affect the population growth of developing countries.
2. Heath issues: Health issues affect the reproductive rates which directly affect the population growth of developing countries.
3. Politics: Politics also affect the population growth of developing countries, as the economy of developing country links to the political structures.
4. Terrorism: Terrorism also affects the population growth of developing countries.
To determine:
Explain the factors and assess the likelihood that the fertility rate of this country will drop in the near future.
Introduction:
The changes in a population number could be due to birth rate, death rate, immigration, and emigration. The factors which affect the population’s growth are poverty, health issues, and food production.
Explanation of Solution
The population growth of developed countries is characterized by low death and birth rate. There are many factors like poverty which cause malnutrition, health care issues, and so on; all these factors affect the birth rate of population. If these factors remain in developing countries then fertility rate of the developing countries will keep decreasing.
The factors that sustain the rapid growth of the countries are poverty, health issues, politics, and terrorism. These factors also affect the fertility rate which in turn affects the population growth.
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