POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Until man began to cultivate land and domesticate animals about 11,000 years ago the number of human beings on earth at any one time probably never exceeded a few millions.

Average life span 25 YEARS

** Ancient Time **
The sick, the injured, the aged were either killed or abandoned. The unwanted children were either killed, a practice called infanticide, or left to die.

Black death, famine and war prevented any advance in longevity or lowering of death rate

** 1650 **

Earths population 540,000,000 Average annual rate of natural increase 0.3% Average life span 40 YEARS

DEATH Rates dropped quickly. life expectancy increased.

Worlds annual rate of natural increase had risen to about 1.8%

( Population explosion )

In INDIA

a voluntary sterilization has been attempted

In Communist China
Forbidding marriages before a certain age & withholding food allowance from illegitimate children in excess of a family quota were used

Controlling the natural growth - one of Zero population

the most important and universal problems of our time.

ultimate goal state in which the birth rate equals the death rate

Canada, France & Australia try to encourage population growth

Hong Kong & Singapore's fertility rates

- lowest in the world

JAPAN
has one of the worlds oldest populations

HUMAN POPULATION
IS IMPORTANT IN MAINTAINING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AN INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE, INDUCING MANY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC & SOCIAL CHANGES IN THE WORLD

 THE HUMAN POPULATION AND ITS LIVING CONDITIONS ARE THE PRIMARY CONCERN OF DEVELOPMENT

 TOTAL NUMBER OF LIVING HUMANS ON EARTH AT A GIVEN TIME 10/22/09 earths population is estimated by the United States Census Bureau to be 6.792 billion

Deaths are only around 57 million per year, & are expected to increase to 90 million per year by the year 2050. Because births outnumbered deaths, the worlds population is expected to reach about 9 billion by the year 2040.

The world population is growing !!!

Food Supplies & Environment

More than 99% of the worlds food supply comes from the land, while less than 1% is from oceans and other aquatic habitats.

All throughout the world, about 4 billion cases of diseases are taken from water and roughly 6 million deaths are cause by waterborne diseases each year. (diarrhea, malaria, etc.)

The sickness most associated with environmental conditions are infectious & parasitic diseases and respiratory infections. Unclean water & equally poor sanitation kill over 12 million people each year.

Pollution and health threats

Death of people was caused mostly by sulphur dioxide coming from burning of oil & high sulphur coal, & from domestic fires, power, & industrial plants, & diesel engines.

 DEFICIENCY - a weakness in bodys system that fights diseases.

SYNDROME means a group of health problems that make up a disease.

The global system of communications has contributed to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS.

Prepared by:
CARMINA BATHAN AND ROCHELLE CANTA