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ENVIRONMENT
POPULATION
EXPLOSION
WHAT IS POPULATION EXPLOSION BY ROTEM
DEM
• snipped "In terms of the large annual increases in aggregate world population identifiable from
the 1950s onward, the population explosion is still with us, though numbers added per year
have fallen from a peak of 86 million in the late 1980s to an estimated 77 million today, while
the annual rate of world population growth has fallen from 2.1% in the mid-1960s to only
1.25%
Well said by ROTEM DEM
WHAT IS • Population explosion refers to the rapid and
dramatic rise in world population that has
POPULATION occurred over the last few hundred years. Between
1959 and 2000, the world’s population increased
EXPLOSION from 2.5 billion to 6.1 billion people. According
to United Nations projections, the world
population will be between 7.9 billion and 10.9
billion by 2050.
WHAT IS
OVERPOPULATION
• Overpopulation refers to a
population which exceeds its
sustainable size within a
particular environment or
habitat. Overpopulation results
from an increased birth rate,
decreased death rate, the
immigration to a new
ecological niche with fewer
predators, or the sudden
decline in available resources.
HOW TO PREVENT POPULATION EXPLOSION
• 1. Family Planning Measures
• A CASE STUDY ON
POPULATION
EXPLOSION
CASE STUDY