HUMAN POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 01: CONCEPTIALIZATION INTRODUCTION The world population is increasing ever more rapidly. This is because it increases in geometrical fashion (i.e. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128…) rather than arithmetically (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,). Death rate and infant mortality rates have been drastically reduced so that more children grow up and themselves have families. Therefore; enormous as the world population is mere numbers do not present problem if all the people in area can be fed, clothed, educated, and employed. But this cannot always be done and this is why population gr...