Question

One of the following causes of population explosion are

• A. Decrease in death rate, maternal mortality rate and infant mortality rate
• B. Decrease in death rate and increase in maternal mortality rate
• C. Decrease in infant mortality rate and increase in death rate
• D. Decrease in infant mortality rate and decrease in the number of people in reproductive age

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

Probable reasons for population explosion :
(i) A rapid decline in death rate.
(ii) Decline in MMR (Maternal mortality rate).
(iii) Decline in IMR (Infant mortality rate).
(iv) An increase in number of people in reproducible age