Association for Light and Life » Social http://www.associationforlightandlife.org Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:22:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Population http://www.associationforlightandlife.org/the-population/ http://www.associationforlightandlife.org/the-population/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:03:35 +0000 admin http://www.associationforlightandlife.org/?p=6 In the Philippines one problem to be considered is overgrown population. Proper family planning is not been properly represented in a proper way to urban people. The Philippine population in the early 1990s continued to grow at a rapid, although somewhat reduced rate from that which had prevailed in the preceding decades. In 1990 the Philippine population was more than 66 million, up from 48 million in 1980. This figure represents an annual growth rate of 2.5 percent, down from 2.6 percent in 1980 and from more than 3 percent in the 1960s. Even at the lower growth rate, the Philippine population will increase to an estimated 77 million by the year 2000 and will double every twenty-nine years into the next century. Moreover, in 1990 the population was still a youthful one, with 57 percent under the age of twenty. The birth rate in early 1991 was 29 per 1,000, and the death rate was 7 per 1,000. The infant mortality rate was 48 deaths per 1,000 live births. Population density increased from 160 per square kilometer in 1980 to 220 in 1990. The rapid population growth and the size of the younger population has required the Philippines to double the amount of housing, schools, and health facilities every twenty-nine years just to maintain a constant level.

In biology, a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular species, in sociology, a collection of human beings. Individuals within a population share a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given geographic area. In addition, on average, populations often show differences in morphological, physiological, life history or behaviour characteristics. In taxonomy, population is a low-level taxonomic rank.

Human populations can be defined by any characteristics such as mortality, migration, family (marriage and divorce), public health, work and the labor force, and family planning. Various aspects of human behaviour in populations are also studied in sociology, economics, and geography.

Financial and economic crisis may depend to human population; we have to consider that family planning may help. Government should extend hand to several citizens and urban people and let them learn to stop over population.

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