1. What is an important indicator about the status of women in a country?
- Crude Birth Rate
- Gross Reproduction Rate
- Sex Ratio
- Crude Death Rate
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Answer: Sex Ratio
The sex ratio, which represents the ratio between the number of women and men in the population, is an important indicator about the status of women in a country.
2. When did the world attain one billion population for the first time?
- 1975
- 1830
- 1930
- 1960
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Answer: 1830
The world attained one billion population for the first time in 1830, followed by the second billion in 1930, the third billion in 1960, and so on.
3. Who coined the term Demographic Dividend?
- David Bloom
- Alexander Humboldt
- Charles Darwin
- Jeans Jacques
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Answer: David Bloom
The term Demographic Dividend was coined by David Bloom. He emphasised the importance of demography to economic growth and attributed a large portion of the economic growth of East Asia in 1965 to 1990 to the region’s working-age population, which led to an increase in productivity.
4. What is the difference between the birth rate and death rate of the population of a country called?
- Demographic dividend
- Demographic Gap
- Physiological Density
- Crude Birth Rate
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Answer: Demographic Gap
Demographic Gap is the difference between the birth rate and death rate of the population of a country. In demographic transition, the demographic gap is small during the initial and final stages, while it becomes large during the middle stages.
5. What is the population per sq km of arable land available in a country called?
- Real Population Density
- Physiological Density
- Absolute Density
- Density
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Answer: Physiological Density
Physiological Density measures the population per sq km of arable land available in a country, measuring the feeding potential of the country to its citizens.
6. What defines the number of daughters who would be born to a woman according to current age-specific fertility and mortality rates?
- Net Reproduction Rate
- Gross Reproduction Rate
- Crude Birth Rate
- General Fertility Rate
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Answer: Net Reproduction Rate
The Net Reproduction Rate defines the number of daughters who would be born to a woman according to current age-specific fertility and mortality rates.
7. What defines the number of daughters who would be born to a woman completing her reproductive life at current age-specific fertility rates?
- Crude Birth Rate
- General Fertility Rate
- Gross Reproduction Rate
- Net Reproduction Rate
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Answer: Gross Reproduction Rate
The Gross Reproduction Rate defines the number of daughters who would be born to a woman completing her reproductive life at current age-specific fertility rates.
8. Which year is called the year of the great divide in the demographic history of India?
- 1891
- 1951
- 1991
- 1921
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Answer: 1921
The year 1921 is the year of the great divide in the demographic history of India when mortality started to decline, leading to acceleration in the rate of population growth.
9. Who gave his ideas regarding population in his book ‘Essay on the principle of Population’?
- Frank W Notestein
- Thomas Robert Malthus
- Alexander Humboldt
- F. Hoyle
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Answer: Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus gave his ideas regarding population in his book ‘Essay on the principle of Population.’ He argued that while food production could only increase in arithmetic progression, human population grows exponentially.
10. Which among the following stages of demographic transition is called the stage of stationary population?
- Stage of high birth rate and high death rate
- Stage of high birth rate and low death rate.
- Stage of declining birth rate and low death rate.
- Stage of low birth rate and low death rate
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Answer: Stage of low birth rate and low death rate
In the fourth stage of demographic transition, a low birth rate and low death rate lead to a stationary or declining population. It is called a stage of stationary population.
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