Population

Population Density: Concentration of specific individuals within a specific geographic locale

Migration: Process of leaving one country or region to move to another

A country only has finite resources for its population. Every 10 years, the government counts person by person. This is incredibly expensive as many people are not legally registered in the national database

The population density in Pakistan is 287 people per km^2 (742 people per mile^2). Pakistan is in the top 10 most populated countries in the world. 35.1% of the Pakistani population is urban. The life expectancy is 67 years. For every 1000 babies born, 55 die.

Impact Of Overpopulation on the Economy:

1. Unemployment

2. Food Insecurity

3. Poverty

4. The burden on Health Care

5. Shortage of Water

6. Electricity Crisis

7. Lack of Educational Institutions

8. Child Labour

9. Rise of Crime

The median age divides the population into two numerically equal groups. Half of the people are older, and half are younger, The median age in Pakistan is 22.8 years

Birth Rate: The term used to define the number of babies born every year per 1000 people in a population

Death Rate: Death rate is the term used to define the number of deaths every year per 1000 people in a population

Natural increase occurs in a population where Birth Rate is greater than the death rate. That is, that there are more births than deaths in that population in a year

Why does Death Rate decline:

1. Better Medical Facilities

2. Initiatives taken to bring diseases like malaria, cholera, typhoid and polio under control

3. Better Food Production

4. NGO's have worked a lot in health care. Alot of humanitarian effort has been done

High Population:

Pakistan is faced with over population. The population is too large to be supported by the available resources

There are early marriages, poverty and child labour. All of which cause an increase in Child Labour

How to reduce Population Growth:

1. Family Planning

2. Government and NGO's work together

3. Rising Family Planning awareness. This can be done through education, posters or videos

4. Ban on Child Labour

5. Increasing Literacy rate so that people understand population control's importance, and so that people stop depending on child labour

6. Delayed marriages so that there is a short reproductivity span

7. Creating employment so that income should be available for parents

8. Female education increase

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pakistan_population_density.png

Notes by Miss Maliha Ghazanfar (2023), compiled by Rayyan Jamil Khan of Class X-T Karachi Grammar School - College Section