Sociology Ch 15
Assume a country has a population of 400 million people and in a given year has 4 million births. What is this country's current crude birth rate?
10
Today, the world is home to about how many people?
7 billion
Currently, about how many people are added to the world's population each year?
87 million
If you were to examine an age-sex pyramid for a low-income nation, you would expect to see which of the following patterns?
A wide base, indicating a high birth rate
Among which of the following categories of the U.S. population is fertility low?
Asian Americans
The United States is a high-income country; therefore, we would expect population increase to result from which of the following?
Both immigration and natural increase
If you were studying countries with very low infant mortality, in which of the following global regions would you be most likely to look?
Europe
Which of the following four statements about migration is NOT true?
Migration has little or no effect on population size
Looking at countries around the world, what is the relationship between average income level and rate of population increase?
The lower the average income, the greater the population increase
One region of the world has both the highest birth rate and the highest infant mortality rate. Which is it?
africa
Why are sex ratios usually below 100?
because women typically outlive men
In global perspective, the crude birth rate of high-income nations such as the United States is ________
below average
Throughout most of human history, families had many children because ________
children were a source of needed labor, birth control was not reliable, and high death rates meant that many children did not reach adulthood
Which of the following concepts refers to the number of live births in a given year for every thousand people in a population?
crude birth rate
Which of the following concepts refers to the maximum possible childbearing for women?
fecundity
Demography is defined as the study of ________
human population
In terms of migration within the United States, the region of the country most often left behind is ________
the heartland or Great Plains, from North Dakota down to Texas
Fertility refers to ________
the incidence of childbearing in a nation's population
The demographic measure called the "sex ratio" refers to ________
the number of males for every 100 females in the population
If a nation has a sex ratio of 107, as India does, it is very likely that parents there ________
value sons more than daughters
