In contrast to nonhuman populations, human population growth rates have begun to decline due to .
a. voluntarily increasing death rates;
b. voluntarily decreasing birth rates;
c. involuntary increases in death rates;
d. involuntary decreases in birth rates;
e. density-dependent factors

Question

In contrast to nonhuman populations, human population growth rates have begun to decline due to                   .
a. voluntarily increasing death rates;
b. voluntarily decreasing birth rates;
c. involuntary increases in death rates;
d. involuntary decreases in birth rates;
e. density-dependent factors

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone. And in today's video, we have a short problem. So let's jump straight into it. So we need to choose the correct explanation for the declining in the human population growth in recent times. And this declining in the human population growth is seen by a decline in the birth rates. So people are given birth less in recent times, leading to this decline. So let's go over to answer choices to solve this problem. So higher female literacy and more opportunities other than childbearing, this is actually true. Higher access to female to female literacy has led to people knowing more about sex education. People know how to protect themselves in the case that they are not wanting to pursue just saw bearing. So this is actually going to be a correct answer choice and we will not cancel it out. We know we have be better access to contraception. This is true as well. In recent times, advances in technology have led to many different variations of contraception. So people who do not want to have Children have a lot of opportunities to just avoid this. So it is actually a correct answer choice as well. Then we have higher income. This is actually true as well as people who are located in higher income countries tend to have less Children. And the reason for these is that they usually tend to pursue education, work or use a different lifestyle other than childbearing. So this higher income allows them to just pursue any of these opportunities, which is going to put them away from childbearing and in turn is going to decline human population growth since no new Children are being born from them. And so all of these three answer choices are going to be correct and all of them are going to lead to the declining in human population growth. So we're going to select answer choice D all of the above as our final answer. So I really hope this video helped you, and I hope to see you on the next one.

In contrast to nonhuman populations, human population growth rates have begun to decline due to . a. voluntarily increasing death rates; b. voluntarily decreasing birth rates; c. involuntary increases in death rates; d. involuntary decreases in birth rates; e. density-dependent factors

Verified Solution

Key Concepts

Population Growth Rates

Birth and Death Rates

Density-Dependent Factors