geography the worlds population
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Analyse the changing nature, rate and distribution of the world's population.
Every year the world's population grows by more than 77 million. A continuation of this growth is to be expected because a large percentage (33%) of the world's population is under the age of 15. there are a number of reasons for the rapid growth. Some of these include:
 Advances in medical science
 Mortality rates (death rates)
 Public health
 Birth rates
 The distribution and density of the world's population
There is also the case of the world's population migrating all around the world and the issue about refugees.
Advances in medical science and public health, nutritional improvements, and improved access to education have come together to reduce child mortality rates and have increased life expectancy without having the same dramatic impact on fertility rates. This means that these days, more people have survived their reproductive years than in the past.
The decline in mortality rates often hailed as one of the great accomplishments of human civilisation. Since the early 1950's, the death rate for the world decreased rapidly, from 19.7 to 19...