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Lesson The Trend of Population Growth
9.5
Rate in Nepal
A staggering 225 million women in developing countries
FACTS want to avoid pregnancy but are not using modern
to Understand contraceptives and tens of millions of women do not
receive the basic pregnancy and delivery care they need.
In the previous lesson we briefly discussed about population growth. It is the
increase in the number of individuals in a population. Population is always
changing with a change of time. Sometimes there is birth which increases
population and sometimes there is death which decreases population. Migration
also affects the population of a certain place. Thus, birth, death and migration are
the major reasons for population change and among them birth and immigration
are the major causes of population growth.
impact of centralization and growth of population
Population growth, decline, migration, etc. are measured through census. In
Nepal the first census was taken in 1911 AD and the latest census was taken in
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