These places usually lack proper water supply, electricity, sanitation and transportation and make living conditions difficult. There is a significant relationship between overpopulation and medicine. Due to the advancement in medicine, mortality rates have gone down which has led to a population explosion.
In addition, there is a lack of food supply which causes deficiency diseases and starvation in overcrowded areas. The dramatic growth in the population of Asia is the result of an increase in the number of people surviving the reproductive age. Population growth accompanies changes in fertility rates due to better education about birth control. The World Bank projects that the million people living in East Asia will rise over time.
Many countries in Asia have relied on their young population, however, with changing demographics, they may lose around 15 percent of their working-age population by Higher incomes and better education have not only led to longer life expectancy and lower fertility rates but have also caused families to move and changed social values.
Lack of financial resources. A broader worldwide food base developed from improvements in trade and global transportation. Humanity developed resistance to several diseases. Better medical technology and research led to an increase in survivorship and a drop in child and infant mortality. Improvements in general living conditions mean longer life span for many people.
The change from pre-reproductive to post-reproductive death with development in medical science has helped people to give birth before they die. Natural Increase: is a measure of population growth that examines the difference between births fertility and deaths mortality in a country for a given year. Total Fertility Rate is a measure of the average number of children a woman can have during the reproductive years of her life 15 - 49 years. It is an average figure that reveals the number of children per family.
In , the total fertility rate for American women was 2. It is currently less than 2. On the global scale, the total fertility rate was 3. It was higher 3. Africa in had a fertility rate of 5. E Asia has 3. How has fertility rates changed in the United States? United States total population grew from 76 million in , to million in - a 3. Since then, the rate has declined to about 2.
The drop in fertility rate has not led to a significant decline in the growth of population in the US compared to European nations. This is due to a number of reasons:. Large number of wealthy baby-boom women who are still in their giving birth to children. An increase in the number of teenage pregnancies. High fertility rates for women minorities in racial groups other than Caucasian women. The absence of private of public Old Age Social Security payments encourages parents in poor countries to bring forth children who will take care of them in their old age.
Educational and Career Opportunities, particularly for women, can cause drop in population growth. Status of Women in Society. When several women move from the home to obtain jobs, population growth declines in the country. Some religions such as Muslim encourage men to have more wives and several children while others such as the Roman Catholic does not support abortion and rather teaches celibacy, abstention and one man one wife.
The availability of safe family planning and birth control services helps prevent unwanted pregnancies. Given its wealth of resources and ecological and biological variety, it's in the perfect position to support this growth as well. Unfortunately, Asia's rapid growth and fast economic development is threatening its limited resources through quick expansion, destruction of natural habits and urbanization.
It's predicted that Asia's population will continue to grow for quite some time, which will continue to strain its resources. Based on current estimates, it's projected that national populations will grow in every country of Asia with the exception of Japan and Kazakhstan through Some countries, including Afghanistan , Nepal and Pakistan, will double in population during this time while India, Vietnam, Malaysia and other countries will see especially high growth rates.
Unfortunately, it's currently projected that the countries which will grow the fastest are the ones with the lowest income in the world, and these countries will be the least capable of handling the extra stress on resources. The top 10 most populous countries in Asia are: China, 1. Asia's Population Growth Asia's growth rate is very high, quadrupling in the last century. List of Capitals in Asia.
Cities in Asia.
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