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World Geography Practice Test: World Population
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The world population is the total number of humans currently living. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach one billion and only 222 years more to reach 8 billion.

World Geography Practice Test: World Population
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1. World’s highest urban density of population occurs in
2. Consider the following statements in respect of the United Arab Emirates:
1. United Arab Emirates are surrounded in the North-West by Oman.
2. United Arab Emirates have highest percentage of the foreigners in its population in the world.
3. Dubai is the most populous of the Emirates. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
3. Consider the following statements: Caucasoid race is associated with
1. Long, wavy soft hair.
2. Narrow to medium broad face.
3. Very broad, flat broad to very broad nose. Of these statements
4. Consider the following statements: Demographic transition is a general model
1. Describing the evolution of levels of fertility and mortality.
2. Which has been developed with particular reference to developed countries.
3. Which has been accepted as the universal model of population growth.
4. Which suggests for highly stylised phases in process. Which of the above statements are correct?
5. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
1. Primary sex ratio — Sex at the time of conception
2. Secondary sex ratio —Sex at the time of birth
3. Tertiary sex ratio—Sex at the time of enumeration
4. Imbalanced sex ratio — Sex of workers Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
6. The most densely populated island of the world is
7. Which one of the following statements is not correct?
8. The correct sequence in the descending order with respect to present total population of the given countries is
9. Approximately, one-half of the world population lives in
10. The Red Indians or the American Indians belong to the
11. In which Asian country has the birth declined?
12. The most widely accepted scheme of cultural realms
13. Infant mortality and birth rate tend to vary together, which suggest that
14. South-West Asia is inhabited chiefly by
15. Which one of the following stages indicates the initiation of population explosion in the demographic transition?
16. Consider the following countries:
1. Bangladesh 2. Brazil
3. Indonesia 4. Japan The correct sequence of these countries in descending order of their population, is
17. The largest religious system in the world in both geographic extent and number of adherents is
18. Which one of the following states was formed exclusively by the migrants in the 20 century?
19. The correct sequence in the descending order of given countries in terms of life expectancy at birth is
20. The Semitic people belong to the
21. Consider the following statements:
1. As per the optimum theory of population per capita income will increase with the population growth in underpopulated areas.
2. According to Malthus, Population doubles once in every 20 years.
3. Celibacy, self-control and late marriages are the preventive checks postulated by Malthus.
4. According to Malthus, war, earthquake and flood are some of the positive checks on population growth. Of these statements
22. Currently half of the world’s population live in just six countries. Identify them from the following
23. The least density populated country among the following countries of Europe is
24. In New Zealand ninety percent population is that of
25. Most of the people in the world live in lowland areas except those in