The population is a crucial element in social studies. Human beings are producers and consumers of the earth’s resources. People have invented technology and made natural resources useful to them.
Nature is a source of products and services to be used for consumption by human beings. The human population has been growing at a very fast rate for a number of years because of improved technology, which has led to a boom in the production of goods and services.
For example, coal was a piece of rock until people invented technology and made it a ‘resource’ It is important to know how many people are there in a country, where they live, how and why their numbers are increasing and what are their characteristics.
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