Tag: population and its impact on resources

Deserts like the Arizona, Gobi, and Ladakh are characterized by harsh climates and low population density. Ukraine is a fertile, temperate region with a significantly higher population density.

Western and Central Europe are historically and geographically characterized by high levels of industrialization and urbanization, leading to a densely populated status.

The countries that are densely populated in the world has more than 200 persons on every sq km. These are the North -Eastern part of U.S.A., North-Western part of Europe, South, South-East and East Asia. The marginal lands in many parts of South and East Asia have been brought under cultivation, and many former pastoral ranges in Southwest and Central Asia are now irrigated, the broad ecological factors touched upon above have continued to give rise to geographic variations in population and economic activity.

Climate has a great impact on human beings. Human beings prefer to live in a place with normal temperature and rainfall. Excessive coldness or hotness in the climate affects the population of the area. Thus, Greenland being a place with excessive coldness is the least densely populated country in the world. 

Enclosures in England were seen as necessary to make long term investments on land and plan crop rotations to improve the soil. Enclosures also allowed the richer landowners to expand the land under their control and produce more for the market. 

Overpopulation is defined as a condition where the existing resources are insufficient to support the current population size, leading to a decline in the standard of living.

By 2011, China and India were the only two countries in the world with a population exceeding one billion.

India is the first country in the world to have adopted an official policy favouring family planning. Before it did so in 1951, a number of social reformers, thinkers and voluntary organisations had desired the government to adopt a policy of population control as a measure to protect the health of the mother.

According to historical demographic data for India, the life expectancy at birth in the year 2000 was approximately 64 years.

Even with the absence of market and exchange economy, only the introduction of agriculture enabled the steady growth of population. In this period, the development of agriculture and livestock ranching encouraged spread of population from Mediterranean and South-West Asia to  Central Asia, China, India and even in far east Asia.