How the Status of Women Affects Human Population Growth

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How the Status of Women Affects Human Population
Growth
By Stu Dent, Willy Wonka, and Jake the Clown,
Environmental Science (BIOL 115) Fall 2001
Introduction
Case Studies
The population of the world surged from 2.4
billion in 1950 to 6.1 billion 50 years later,
because birth rates remained high at the same
time that death rates began to fall. The number
of children that a couple will have is determined
by many factors, including health, religion,
culture, economic status, and the ability to have
the number they wish to have. Many of these
factors relate to the status of women the
social, economic, and cultural circumstances of
women in society and of individual women in
different societies. Because these factors help
determine the number, spacing, and timing of
births, women's choices (or lack thereof)
regarding childbirth directly affect population
growth.
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Figure 1. Total fertility rate in various
countries when women are grouped by education
level. Source Population Reference Bureau
http//www.prb.org/Content/NavigationMenu/PRB/
Educators/Human_Population/Women/The_Status_of_Wom
en1.htm
Conclusions
Glossary of terms Birth rate (or crude birth
rate) The number of live births per 1,000
population in a given year. Not to be confused
with the growth rate. Death rate (or crude
death rate) The number of deaths per 1,000
population in a given year. Family Usually two
or more persons living together and related by
birth, marriage, or adoption. Families may
consist of siblings or other relatives as well as
married couples and any children they have.
Family planning The conscious effort of
couples to regulate the number and spacing of
births through artificial and natural methods of
contraception. Literacy The ability to read
and write. Total fertility rate (TFR) The
number of children women are having today. The
average number of children that would be born
alive to a women during her childbearing years if
she conformed to the age-specific fertility rates
of a given year.

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