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What are the suggested reasons for population explosion?
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Solution
The following are the causes of population growth-
- Due to health facilities, there has been a decrease in Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR).
- Increase in the number of reproductive persons.
- Improvement in the standard of living due to good health services.
- Due to illiteracy, people do not have knowledge of the means of family planning and the methods of family planning are not fully adopted.
- Increase in the production of food grains due to scientific and technological progress.
- Many epidemics can be eliminated through community health programmes.
- Due to low social status, most poor people believe that the more children they have, the more money they will earn by working.
- Due to social customs, couples continue to have children in the hope of having a son.
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