1) Though NIR is forecast to be much slower in the twenty-first century than in

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1) Though NIR is forecast to be much slower in the twenty-first century than in the twentieth, world population will continue to grow.

a) TRUE, b) FALSE

2) Currently, every country in the world is in the fourth stage of the demographic transition model.

a) TRUE, b) FALSE

3)On average, South Asia has the highest total fertility rates in the world.

a) TRUE b) FALSE

4) The natural increase rate (NIR) is the total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society.

a) TRUE b) FALSE

5)Which of the following countries had the one-child policy at the core of its family planning program?

a) Sweden b)India c) China d) Italy e) Russia

6)Which of the following is a possible reason for a decline in birth rates?

a) improved education, b)access to birth control, c) gender equality, d) improved health care, e) all of the above, f)none of the above

7)The is the number of people who are too young or too old to work, compared to the number of people in their productive years.

a) workforce, b) work burden, c) workforce load d) dependency ratio e) youth bulge.

8)A person born in a country is expected to live a certain number of years based on current mortality levels in that country. This is referred to as:

a) fertility rate b) life expectancy at birth c) crude birth rate d) mortality rate e) none of the above.

9)In population studies, the percentage by which a population grows in a year, exluding migration, is referred to as:

a) total fertility rate, b) natural increase rate, c) population growth rate, d)population doubling time, e)crude increase rate.

10) A ___ is a bar graph that displays a country’s population by age and gender.

a)population pyramid, b)population graph, c)population ratio d)demographic transition e)demographic graph

1) Though NIR is forecast to be much slower in the twenty-first century than in the twentieth, world population will continue to grow.

1) (a) true

2) (b) false

3) (b) false niger is the highest TFR (south africa)

4) The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate = NIR (b) false

5) (c) china

6) (e) all of the above

7) (d) dependency ratio

8) (b) life expectancy at birth rate

9) (b) natural increase rate

10) (a) population pyramid

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