Quiz on Population 2- World Population Day

Quiz on Population 2- World Population Day

World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. Here is a quiz on population.

Quiz on Population

---

1. Which country is in the top of the list as per ranking in both total population and population density?

Pakistan
India
Japan
Bangladesh

2. Which is the most populous state in India?

Uthar Pradesh
Assam
Maharashtra
Bihar

3. Who wrote "The book An Essay on the Principle of Population" that fueled debate about the size of the population in Britain?

Paul Enrich
Sturat Pimm
Mathis Wackemagel
Thomas Robert Malthus

4. Which is the most populous county in the world?

India
China
United States
Indonesia

5. The statistical study of population is known as

Demography
Demology
Anthropology
Seismography

6. The population of the world reached one billion for the first time in which year?

1904
1804
1840
1940

7. Which year the first population census of India conducted?

1881
1872
1862
1892

8. Which one of the following is designated by United Nations Population Fund as the Day of Five Billion?

11 July 1987
11 July 1997
11 July 1887
11 July 2007

9. Who is known as the "Father of Demography"?

Thomas Robert Malthus
Charles Darwin
John Graunt
Gunter Grass

10. 12 October 1999 is officially designated by the United Nations Population Fund as

The Day of 7 Billion
The Day of Four Billion
The Day of Five Billion
The Day of Three Billion

11. Which country ranks first in population density among the countries having population of over 10 million?

Netherlands
India
Bangladesh
Rwanda

12. Which is the most densely populous country in the world?

China
Singapore
Malaysia
Monaco

---

More Quiz 

Share this

Scholastic World