Population Growth

J2012/Q.7
(a) Define the term death rate and describe the factors that can affect a country’s death rate.
[6]
(b) Explain what is meant when a country is said to be overpopulated. [4]
(c) Discuss whether the population problems found in the developing world are the same as
those found in the developed world. [10]

N2011/Q.6
(b) Explain what influences a country’s birth rate. [6]

N2010/Q.6
Changes in population have a significant effect on many countries.
(a) (i) What is meant by net migration? [2]
(ii) Identify two other factors that influence the size of a country’s population. [2]
(b) Compare the consequences of population growth for developing and developed countries.[6]
(c) Discuss whether a change in the occupational structure of a country would be beneficial for
the economy. [10]

J2010/Q.6
Both China and India have a population of over 1 billion people each.
(a) Describe one economic advantage and one economic disadvantage to countries such as
China and India of having a very large population. [4]
(b) Explain the reasons for the different rates of population growth in different countries. [6]
N2009/Q.1
A developed country had a fall in its birth rate. From 1997, numbers in government junior
(primary) schools fell by 300 000 over ten years. In time, this decline in numbers reached
government senior (secondary) schools.
It was predicted in 2007 that, in the next ten years, the population of all children under 19
would further decrease by 4.5 %, with the numbers at senior school age (11 to 18 years) falling
by 11 %.
(a) Explain whether a decline in the birth rate would mean that the population of a country is
declining. [4]
(b) Analyze the possible effect in the employment market of a fall in the number of school
leavers for a ten year period. [6]

J2009/Q.1
(d) Discuss whether you agree with the President of Uganda that an increase in population
causes an increase in the workforce which would improve economic growth. [6]

N2008/Q.1
(a) What is shown in a population pyramid? [3]
(b) Describe what the prediction suggests will happen in Botswana by 2050. [3]
(c) (i) Draw an outline shape of a population pyramid for a typical developed country to show
how it might differ from those given for Botswana. [3]
(ii) Explain what causes the difference in the shape of the population pyramid of a developed
and a developing country. [4]
(d) Discuss how an improvement in education in a developing country such as Botswana might
have an effect on its population. [7]

J2007/Q.4
World population has more than doubled since 1950. People in many countries face poverty
and malnutrition.
(a) What differences might you expect to find in the factors that affect population growth in
developed and developing countries? [4]
(b) Analyse what might happen to the occupational distribution of the population as a country
becomes more developed. [6]
(d) An increase in population means an increase in labour. It is, therefore, to be encouraged. Do
you agree with this view? [7]

J2006/Q.7
(a) The rate of population growth in developed countries is often different from the rate of
population growth in developing countries. Explain why this might be so. [5]
(b) Sometimes a government might try to limit the growth in the population of its country.
Explain why it might want to do this. [4]

N2005/Q.6
(a) What determines the rate of growth of a population? [3]
(b) Contrast the expected age structure of the population of a developing country with that of a
developed country. [7]
(c) In some developing countries life expectancy has been declining in recent years. This has
been largely due to the spread of HIV/AIDS. Governments have allocated large amounts of
expenditure to developing new hospitals and to providing health education programmes.
Discuss in what ways this policy might affect other major government economic policies. [10]

N2004/Q.4
(b) How may the age structure of the population in a developing country differ from that in a
developed country? [6]

J2004/Q.7
(a) Contrast the occupational distribution of the population of a developing country with that of
a developed country. [5]
N2003/Q.4
(c) Explain what is likely to be the occupational distribution of the population in a less
developed country. [4]
(d) If a less developed country becomes classified as a developed country, what changes ould
probably have happened to the structure of its population and its occupational distribution? [6]