06. Changing populations

What was the estimated global population around 10,000 years ago when people began to domesticate animals and cultivate crops?

• 125,000 people

• 5 million people

• 30 million people

• 250 million people

By what year did the global population reach 1 billion?

• 1650

• 1800

• 1900

• 2000

Which region is projected to have the fastest rate of population growth in the future?

• Europe

• Asia

• Africa

• North America

What percentage of the world's population did Asia account for in 2023?

• 22.0%

• 59.1%

• 77.2%

• 9.2%

What significant advances have contributed to the rapid growth in human population in recent centuries?

• Technological gadgets

• Public health and medicine

• Space exploration

• Industrial machinery

What was the highest global population growth rate recorded in LICs and MICs during the mid-1960s?

• 1.8 per cent per year

• 2.4 per cent per year

• 0.9 per cent per year

• 3.0 per cent per year

By 2023, what was the global population growth rate?

• 1.8 per cent per year

• 2.4 per cent per year

• 0.9 per cent per year

• 1.5 per cent per year

Which two countries had populations over 1.4 billion by mid-2023?

• China and the USA

• India and China

• India and the USA

• China and Brazil

What is the term used to describe the difference between the birth rate and the death rate?

• Population momentum

• Demographic transition

• Natural increase

• Fertility rate

What is the birth rate if a country has 17 births per 1000 people in a year?

• 1.7 per 1000

• 17 per 1000

• 170 per 1000

• 0.17 per 1000