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What We Have Learned From Our Readings Provided By The Population Reference Bureau

Decent Essays

The following questions will be answered based on what we have learned from our readings provided by the Population Reference Bureau.

1) In your own words (cite where the ideas are from), explain the trends in the world population over the last two centuries and tell us how and why life expectancy, family planning and poverty issues are related to the population trends we have seen.
It took many thousands of years for the world to reach 1 billion people but in the last 200 years that number has become 7 times bigger and continues to increase. The population growth has slow down lately but not the concern about over population which sounds kind of a contradiction but the reality is that development countries have help in the transition to improve life and offset human mortality. As a result we are going to mention some of the most important changes of those improvements.
a. Life expectancy
Thanks to industrialization and modernization in developed countries, public health initiatives and the development of new medicines has become a reality reason enough to increase life expectancy. More children survived nowadays and death rate has become lower, unfortunately global inequality has cause underdeveloped countries to still be far from reaching the same reality. (Ideas - WORLD POPULATION GROWING AT RECORD SPEED)
b. Family planning
In despite of certain norms, traditions and cultural factors, family size and gender roles are factors considered in present days when it

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