Candidates should be able to
- Describe and suggest reasons for the rapid increase in the world's population in recent times, ‘the population explosion'.
- Define the main components influencing population growth - birth rate, death
rate and migration.
- Describe the relationship between population growth and resources and explain
why problems may result in some areas such as over-population and underpopulation.
- Identify and suggest reasons for contrasting patterns of population growth in
different world areas as influenced by differences in birth rate, death rate and
migration. Factors affecting these influences should be considered such as
differences in social, economic and other factors, e.g. government policies and
their impact upon birth rates, differences in health care, social and other factors
influencing death rates, especially the impact of HIV/AIDS. These factors should
be illustrated by reference to selected examples.
- Describe the consequences (benefits and problems) of different patterns of
population growth. Consideration should be given to variations in the size and
nature of dependent populations and standards of living.
- Identify and suggest reasons for different types of population structure as shown
by age-sex pyramids. Candidates should be able to describe population
pyramids and relate them to the different stages of the Demographic Transition
Model.
- Identify the major influences on population density and population distribution.
Reference should be made to physical, economic and human factors.
- Describe and suggest reasons for population migrations. Reference should be
made to internal movements such as rural-urban migration as well as to
international migrations both voluntary and involuntary. |
