Population *

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

@@War@@

  • 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