The world population in 2000 was around

• 8 billion
• 6.1 billion
• 7.1 billion
• 5.1 billion

In 1960, the world population was around

• 2 billion
• 3 billion
• 4 billion
• 4.5 billion

Population pyramids are useful to

• express the population growth rates
• express the age-sex distribution of a population
• indicate the birth rates
• indicate the death rates

Population ageing is

• the increase in the average age of the population
• the result of decreased death and birth rates
• the trend where more people live to reach old age while fewer children are born
• all of the above

The problem with population ageing is

• there may come a time when there are not enough young people to finance or care the old
• population explosion
• increased birth rates
• increased death rates

The average life expectancy around the world is currently

• decreasing
• increasing
• not changing
• stabilizing

Which of the following is a problem not associated with population growth?

• Increased resource consumption
• Environmental pollution
• Food and energy shortages
• None of the above

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the UN in the year

• 1946
• 1947
• 1948
• 1949

HIV is not likely to be transmitted by which of the following?

• Sharing needles or injection equipment
• Breast-feeding
• Blood transfusion
• Mosquito bites

The disease which wiped out one-third of the population of Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries was

• cholera
• plague
• meningitis
• diphtheria

The major objective of Family Welfare Programmes in India is

• disease control
• population growth rate control
• employment generation
• none of the above

India Population Project (IPP)-VIII was aimed at

• improving health and family welfare services in the urban slums in the cities of Delhi, Calcutta, Hyderabad and Bangalore
• improving health and family welfare services in the urban slums in the cities of Delhi, Calcutta, Mumbai and Chennai
• a series of birth control Programmes in the entire India
• improving health and family welfare services in India

The objectives of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) are

• immunization
• health check up and referral services
• pre-school non-formal education
• all of the above

The major cause of global population growth in the 18th and 19th centuries was

• decrease in death rates
• decrease in birth rates
• industrial revolution
• none of these

The major factors contributing to the decline in death rate in the 20th century were

• improved agricultural practices and increased birth rates
• improved medicine, sanitation, and nutrition
• endemic poverty, low levels of education
• European colonization and improved agricultural practices