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Question
State four causes of population growth.
Solution
Reasons for High Population Growth
- Increase in longevity. Decline in death rate, maternal mortality rate (MMR), and infant mortality rate (IMR).
- Decrease in death rate. An increase in number of people in reproductive age.
- Role of Reproductive and Child Heath Care (RCH) Programmes. RCH programmes could bring down the population growth rate but it was only marginal.
- Control of diseases. Control of diseases has reduced the death rate.
- Improvements in medical facilities. Better public health care and greater medical attention.
- Advancement in agriculture, improvement in food storage conditions and better means of transport. These means decrease death rate.
- Protection from natural calamities. This has decreased death rate.
- Role of certain religions.Certain religions are against family planning.
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