Six Billion and Beyond Movie
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- In the past thirty years the average family size in Mexico has dropped from 7 to what?
- 2.5
- One in six young adults in Kenya is what?
- HIV positive
- What percentage of Kenyans finish High School?
- 80%
- What percentage of unemployment is in many villages in Kenyan?
- 70%
- What is the population in India?
- 1 billion
- What percentage of women in India can't read or write?
- 63%
- China had 1.3 billion people this is what amount of the worlds population?
- 1/3
- When did the Chinese government start a policy of limiting family size?
- 1979
- Between 1959-1961, famine gripped China and nearly how many people starved to death?
- 30 million
- What percent of the Chinese live off the land?
- 70%
- Does China really have a single child policy?
- Yes
- What happens to a couple if they have a "Birth without permission"
- They pay a fine
- The fines amount to how much of the annual income
- twice the annual income
- How many children were born in Italy in 1958? in 1998?
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one million -1958
50,000 - 1998 - Today in Italy there are more people over the age of ____ than under the age of 20
- 60
- What is the cause of the extreme low birth rate in Italy?
- it is a result of the changing status of women
- What is the average age a women in Italy has her first child?
- Thirty
- The US is the _____most populous country in the world after China and India.
- Third
- What is the biggest issue in the US concerning population?
- The impact that each person has on the environment
- The average American consumes ____ times more resources than a person in the developed world.
- 50 times
- In the entire world of 6 billion lived like Americans we would need how many more planets of this size?
- Two
- What will happen when the birds and wildlife are gone?
- We will disappear
- How many residents does Mexico City gain each year even as they slow their population growth?
- About one million
- Today how many young people are coming of a reproductive age?
- one billion
- China will grow to how many billion before stabilizing in 40 years?
- 1.6 billion
- where is 98% of the population growth occurring?
- in developing nations
- The official position of the Church prohibits all artificial methods of what?
- birth control
- When was the 6 billionth person born?
- Sometime around October 12, 1999
- How long did it take for our human population to reach its first one billion?
- several million years
- Our most recent billion arrived in how long?
- 12 years
- The population of the world will decrease if every family has how many children?
- Two
- What is something that women in developing countries desperately want.
- Family planning
- In this century the human population has gone from 2 billion to what?
- 6 billion
- In the past thirty years, the average number of children has dropped from six to what?
- three
- Half of the world is under the age of?
- 25
- To the environment more people means greater demands for what?
- fresh water
- How many people could we reach by the year 2050?
- 9 billion
- By 2015 there will how many megacities?
- 26
- With 18 million, what is the largest megacity in the world?
- Mexico City