population and settlement

-
Today in class we learned about population. There are 7.5 billion on the planet right now and increasing by 73 million per year that is approximately 200,00 people per day which is 8377 people per hour. 90% of this population takes place in developing countries like Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America. The average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year.
High: Monaco (89.52 total: 85.63 men, 81.97 women).
#42: U.S. (79.88 total: 77.32 men, 81.97 women).
Low: Chad (49.81 total: 48.64 men, 51.03 women).
Crude birth rate: number of births per 1,000 of the population.
Crude death rate: number of deaths per 1,000 of the population.
Rate of natural increase (RNI).
produced by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate this gives us the annual natural growth rate- in percentage form- for a country region.
Net Migration: the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country in a year.
an excess of persons entering the county is net immigration. 
an excess of persons leaving the county the county is net immigration.
Why do people migrate 
push forces

  • war 
  • environmental degradation 
  • unemployment or underemployment  
  • religious or ethnic persecution 
pull forces 
  • better economic degradation 
  • better heath services 
  • religious freedom 
  • political freedom
TFR: average number of children born per woman 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

guns germs and steel pt.3

-
Today in class we watched more of the videos on guns germs and steel by Jared Diamond. It talked about farming and the better and worse crops. In the middle east wheat and barley was growing wild the people used granaries to store the wheat and barley. China grows rice, America grows corn, squash and beans, and Africa grows sorghum, millet and yam. When it comes to farming for the people in Papa New Guini it comes down to Geographic luck.
Read more

guns germs and steel pt.4

-
Today in class the video on guns germs and steel talked about domesticating animals which means making them more useful. For example instead of just eating a cow you would make cloths and breed it to get more cows. The first animals to ever be domesticated were goats and sheep. There are only 14 animals that have ever been domesticated they are goats, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, bacteria camels, Arabian camels, water buffalo, llamas, rain deer, yaks, mithans, and bail cattle.   
Read more

guns germs and steel pt.2

-
Today we watched more of the video guns germs and steel. It talked about how the Papa New Guineans gather and hunt food. The women are the gatherers and the men are the hunters the way the men hunt is with stone age weapons such as wooden bows with stone tips and sharpened wooden sticks as spears. The way the women gathered food is by chopping down a tree and striping it to the core, processing it and cooking it. They also could go out and make a shelter with nothing but their hands in a half an hour.
Read more