What is the first stage of the demographic transition called?
Correct answer A. Pretransition stage
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Why did the general fertility rate fall between 1964 and 2000?
Correct answer D. Increases in the age of marriage and the age at which childbearing begins
What are the main causes of illness and death in stage 3 of the health transition?
Correct answer A. Chronic degenerative diseases such as cancer heart disease and strokes
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According to United Nations estimates, what will average world life expectancy have reached by 2025?
Correct answer B. 71
Why do sociologists use the category of race?
Correct answer A. It is a social category which has real effects on people lives
Within roughly how many years was the world population expected to double?
Correct answer B. 35 years
Economic growth will keep pace with population growth only if there is what?
Correct answer B. Improved technology
Overpopulation is one of the major causes of what?
Correct answer D. All of the above
When does a country become overpopulated?
Correct answer B. Its resources fail to cope with its requirement
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According to which source was Pakistan’s population estimated at 148.72 million?
Correct answer B. 2004 census
Pakistan’s demographic situation offers an extraordinary opportunity. What can the country do with it?
Correct answer A. Both a and b
What is the systematic, widespread withdrawal of investment in basic productive capacity such as factories and plants called?
Correct answer C. Deindustrialisation
What did Thomas Robert Malthus regard as the appropriate way to control population?
Correct answer D. Postpone marriage
Which of these nations has the lowest infant mortality rate?
Correct answer C. Sweden
Demographers who once expected the US population to stabilise at 290 to 300 million now predict around 390 million. Why?
Correct answer D. All of the above
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Which of these countries is currently experiencing a negative birth rate?
Correct answer C. China
What social trend does the demographic transition involve?
Correct answer D. A decline in the birth rate greater life expectancy and an ageing population
What does the ‘compulsion of proximity’ describe?
Correct answer B. Wanting to meet face-to-face whenever possible
How did global life expectancy at birth change between 1968 and 1998?
Correct answer D. Risen from 50 to 61 years
What is the study of measuring and explaining the size of populations called?
Correct answer B. Demography