Population

2. An approach to lowering birth rates; IUD, pill, etc.
4. More favorable in wealthy countries of Western Europe and least favorable in the poor countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.
7. One of the world's wealthiest countries.
9. The number of people supported by a unit area of arable land.
11. A disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.P.S. I thought this was funny since we are in one.
13. The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.
16. Who argued that population growth stimulated economic growth ?
19. Why are contraceptives mostly opposed ?
20. Japan, Korea, China & Taiwan.

1. Medical technology invented in Europe and North America diffused to less developed countries.
3. The number of males per hundred females in the population.
5. Humans tend to avoid these lands when looking for where to live.
6. A conjunction of major improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.
8. The number of people who are too young or too old to work.
10. Transmitted to humans by fleas from migrating infected rats.
12. The hypothesis that the world's rate of population increase was far outrunning the development of food supplies.
14. The number of years needed to double a population.
15. The number of years in which the census is retaken.
17. Demographic transition: Stage 2.
18. What contraceptive is most used in Germany ?