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Lesson Introduction to Population Education
9.1

In the year 1000 AD, the world population was only 400
FACTS million. In 1750 AD 750 years later the population was
to Understand 800 million and it first reached the 1 billion mark in 1804.
By 1972 we had 2 billion people and 3 billion by 1960.
But it only took 40 years until 2000 for the population to
double again to 6 billion.

Population refers to all the inhabitants of a particular place. In simple words,
the people living within a political or geographical boundary is called population.
Population education is an educational process. It helps people to understand the
nature, the causes and consequences of population growth. It is the education
about population matters i.e. fertility, mortality, migration, etc. According to the
UNESCO “population Education is an educational programme which provides for
the study of population situation of the family, the community, nation and world,
with the purpose of developing in the student's rational and responsible attitudes
and behaviour towards that situation.

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