A country has a birth rate of 30 per 1000 and a death rate of 5 per 1000. What is its natural increase as a percentage?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. 2.5%
- Step 1: Natural increase = birth rate - death rate = 30 - 5 = 25 per 1000. Step 2. Divide by 10 to get a percentage: 2.5%. Answer: 2.5%. Why not the others: 35%: That adds the two rates instead of subtracting. 25%: That leaves the rate per 1000 without converting it to a percentage. 0.2%: That divides by 10 once too often.
Practise more Map skills and population.
Free questions with an explanation for every one, and full timed Tawjihi (Palestinian General Secondary Examination), Literary Stream mock tests.
More Map skills and population questions
- A district has a population of 240,000 and an area of 60 square kilometres. What is its population density?
- A district has a population of 900,000 and an area of 300 square kilometres. What is its population density?
- A district has a population of 1,500,000 and an area of 500 square kilometres. What is its population density?
- A district has a population of 360,000 and an area of 90 square kilometres. What is its population density?
- A district has a population of 2,100,000 and an area of 700 square kilometres. What is its population density?
- A district has a population of 450,000 and an area of 150 square kilometres. What is its population density?