WAEC (WASSCE) Economics · Population, labour and the productive sectors

Population: WAEC Economics Past Questions and Answers

What the WAEC syllabus covers in Population

Our summary: How population size, growth and distribution are measured and how they affect economic development.

  • Determination and implication of size and growth of population
  • Rural–urban migration
  • Malthusian theory of population
  • Geographical, age, sex and occupational distribution
  • Importance and problems of census
  • Population and economic development (under-population, optimum population and over-population)

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WAEC (WASSCE) Economics questions on Population

  1. WAEC 2024Malthus predictions did not come to pass mainly because
  2. WAEC 2024In determining the growth of a country's population, infant mortality is a component of
  3. WAEC 2023The malthusian theory of population is best illustrated when
  4. WAEC 2023The dependency ratio of a country is the
  5. WAEC 2023The rate of growth of population is
  6. WAEC 2019Malthusian theory of population was proved wrong because
  7. WAEC 2018positive checks as envisaged by Thamos Malthus can be prevented if
  8. WAEC 2017which of the following is an implication of a large population
  9. WAEC 2016One feature of a growing population

Years with Population questions in DeeepSolve's question bank

From the past questions DeeepSolve holds, not a count of everything the exam body has set.

  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016