World population growth
Factors that influence the rate of population change
==Food supply==
- A growing population needs food supply
- The agricultural revolution increased population growth because it made more food available
- Machinery ad new farming methods = produce more food
- Fertilisers and pesticides = grow more crops = less chance of famine
- Lowers the death rate
- In Sierra Leone people don’t get the necessary nutrition so the poplation is vunerable to disease
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- Increases death rate
- Decreases birthrate
- Strains health services, water supplies, sanitation and farming => higher death rate
- Civil war in Sierra Leone => no investment in development
- People died in war => population decline
Technological development
- Increased food supply
- Tractors
- Irrigation schemes
- Improvement in health
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==Role of women in society==
Demographic transition model
Population pyramids
Population change