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  1. Why is the replacement-level total fertility rate (TFR) 2.1 — 2.3 and not 2.0?
  2. What did Malthus fail to foresee when he published his treatise in 1798?
  3. Explain how population pyramids can be used to plan for the needs of a country's population 20-50 years into the future.
  4. Discuss the statement "Famine has always been a region's natural population control." Is this still true in the modern day?
  5. Most of the news reports we see about population warn about population growth, overcrowding, and similar issues, but many countries have declining populations. Is an aging or declining population a burden on a society? How? What other problems might an industrialized country face if its population declines?





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