Changing Populations

This slide covers the reviewed syllabus for IGCSE Geography on the topic Changing populations.
Lesson Objectives:
Describing populations grow and decline
Explaining the patterns and trends in global population growth.
Explaining the reasons for the growth and decline of a country’s population: fertility rate, birth rate, death rate, natural increase, migration.
Evaluating the of the impacts of pro-natalist and anti-natalist policies on birth rates.
Explaining the demographic transition model (DTM) and its strengths and limitations.
Explaining the factors influencing population structures: natural increase and net migration.
explaining the causes and impacts of youthful and ageing population structures, and an evaluation of their
impacts.
One detailed specific example of a named country.