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Practice the MCQ Questions for Class 12 Geography Chapter 2 The World Population: Distribution, Density and Growth quiz to improve your knowledge and exam readiness.

1. Which one of the following is not a fact?

Human population increased more than ten times during the past 500 years (B)

Nearly 80 million people are added to the world population each year

It took 100 years for the population to rise from five billion to six billion

Population growth is high in the first stage of demographic transition.

2. What was world population at the beginning of the 21st century?

4 billion

8 billion

6 billion

10 billion

3. What is the present growth rate of population in the world?

1.0%

1.2%

1.4%

1.6%

4. How many times The world population has increased during the last 500 years?

5. What is the average density of the world population? (per sq. km.)

6. Which country has the highest density of population?

China

India

Singapore

Indonesia

7. Which continent has the highest growth rate of the population?

Asia

Africa

Europe

Australia

8. What was the world population at the time of the Industrial Revolution?

30 crore

40 crore

50 crore

60 crore

9. Which is the most populated country?

China

India

Russia

Germany

10. How many people are added to the world population every year?

6 crore

7 crore

8 crore

10 crore

11. The ten most populated countries have a world population:

50%

60%

70%

80%

12. Which one of the following continents has the highest growth of population:

Africa

South America

Asia

North America.

13. Which one of the following is not an area of the sparse population?

The Atacama

Equatorial Region

South-East Asia

Polar Regions.

14. Which of the following is not a push factor:

Water shortage

Unemployment

Medical/Educational facilities

Epidemics