Population Problems

Today's lesson was all about India's population problems. These are due in part to it's excessively large population of 1.2 billion which accounts for 16% of the world's population living off of only 2% of the world's land and also due to the fact that 38% of India's population are between the ages of 0-14. This means they have a high proportion of young people or a youthful population.

We then looked at what India is trying to do to sustain it's population growth long term by reading and highlighting an article written about their attempts. Click HERE to download a copy all highlighted, colour coded and divided into categories. To do this they have attempted to reduce their birth rate to slow the rate of future population growth down, they have looked at ways to increase food production to ensure people are not starving, India has investigated new environmentally friendly ways of producing electricity as the demand for this grows and they have also attempted to increase the availability of education so that there are enough services for the high number of young people.

After this we started to convert these ideas into diagrams that could be used in an exam question if needed, we will continue finishing these off for the first 20 minutes of next lesson and will then start work on an overall revision sheet for the population in India unit so make sure your book is up to date.

Last couple of points for today, it was awesome to see a few of you at the revision sessions this week, remember to check when and where these are as they are great for just getting you thinking about volcanic eruptions again. Don't forget to complete your homework for Mr Whipp by tomorrow on the Dharavi slums, this is another great example of how India is looking to sustain it's population growth in it's overpopulated cities like Mumbai

Don't just think, DO!