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Population

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1 Explain what is meant by each of the following terms:
  (i) birth rate
(2)
  (ii) infant mortality rate
(2)
  (iii) dependency ratio
(2)
  (iv) emigration
(1)
  (v) rural-urban migration
(1)



2 Name a country where the death rate has fallen rapidly since the 1960s.
  (i) For that country give three reasons why the death rate has fallen.
(6)
  (ii) How has this change in death rate affected life expectancy?
(1)



3 The diagram below shows a simplified version of the demographic transition model.

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(i) What was happening to the population total in Stage 2?
(1)
(ii) What was happening to the population total in Stage 3?
(2)
(iii) Name a country which has developed a policy to reduce its birth rate.
(1)
(iv) Why was this policy needed?
(3)
(v) Describe the policy.
(6)
(vi) How successful has the policy been? Mention any problems that the policy has caused, as well as its successes.
(3)



4 Choose a major international migration that you have studied which has taken place in the last 30 years. It may still be going on.
  (i) Name the two countries that were the original home and the destination of the migrants.
(2)
  (ii) Explain what caused the migration.
(6)
  (iii) How has the movement of people affected:
the area which the migrants left?
the area that they moved to?
(9)