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Over the past fifty six years, the human population of Madagascar has increased. The main factor that has affected their growth is a density dependant factor of increased birth rate. The population of young people is far larger than the population of elderly. This is because there is a lack of reproductive health education and because the infant mortality rate has decreased by 36 percent. This has caused the population to grow by 20 million in the last fifty six years. However, due to the poverty and lack of resources, the population could begin to decrease. In Madagascar, cattle represents wealth, but now there is too much cattle for the amount of land accessible, so the grazing is causing the island to erode. There is also a lot of deforestation
that has been going on for decades which is also causing erosion, which limits usable land. Some of the density independent factors that affect Madagascar, may also lead to a decrease in population. Climate change and global warming has been making it very difficult to obtain clean water in Madagascar. Half of the people living on the island have no access to clean water and about ninety percent of the people don’t have a toilet. The lack of water and toilets, causes disease and infection to spread because hygiene can’t be a main priority. A disease called diarrhoeal disease had killed about 1,219,000 people in Madagascar because of this, and the disease is still spreading. Another density independent factor Madagascar faces are the weather patterns created from climate change. Many monsoons attack the island and flood the rice fields, which is their source of income and food. I believe that the population will keep increasing over the next ten years because the fertility rate is high but soon after that, I think the population will start to decrease. They have just about reached carrying capacity and we can see this because of their intense deforestation. They are burning the forests in order to create more land to farm and live on. There is also much disease sweeping the island and killing large amounts of people because of their lack of hygiene. And although the infant mortality rate is lower, it may soon start to climb again due to the diseases and lack of hygiene