1. Human Geography Population

2. Chapter 4 Population: World Patterns, Regional Trends
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9. Population Geography
Provides the background tools and understanding of population data such as:
Numbers of people
Age of people
Sex distribution of people
Patterns of fertility and mortality
Density
Helps us understand how the people in a given area live, how they may interact with one another, how they use the land, what pressure on resources exists, and what the future may bring
Differs from demography, the statistical study of human population, in its concern with spatial analysis – the relationship of numbers to area

10. Some Population Definitions:
Crude Birth Rates
The annual number of live births per 1000 population
It is “crude” because it relates births to total population without regard to the age or sex composition of the population
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Birthrate explained (video)
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World birth rate map

11. Some Population Definitions
Total Fertility Rate
The average number of children that would be born to each woman if, during her childbearing years, she bore children at the current year’s rate for women that age
A more refined statement than the crude birth rate for showing the rate and probability of reproduction among fertile females
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Fertility rates

12. Some Population Definitions
Crude Death Rate…Why Crude?
Also called mortality rate
The annual number of deaths per 1000 population
In the past, a valid generalization was that death rate varied with national levels of development
Characteristically, highest rates were found in the less developed countries
Nowadays, countries with a high proportion of elderly people, such as Denmark and Sweden, would be expected to have higher death rates than those with a high proportion of young people
World Death Rates

13. Some Population Definitions
Infant Mortality Rate
The ratio of deaths of infants aged 1 year or under per 1000 live births.
Infant mortality rates are significant because it is at these ages that the greatest declines in mortality have occurred, largely as a result of the increased availability of health services
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14. Some Population Definitions
Maternal Mortality Ratio
Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births
Maternal mortality is the single greatest health disparity between developed and developing countries
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15. Population Growth Rate of Natural Increase
Derived by subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate
Natural means that increases or decreases due to migration are not included

16. Population Growth Doubling Times
The time it takes for a population to double if the present growth rate remains constant

17. Population Pyramids
A graphic device that represents a population’s age and sex composition
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18. The Demographic Transition
Demographic transition explained
Hans Rosling on Demographic transition and population
Demographic Transition Video

20. The Demographic Equation
Population Relocation
Immigration Impacts
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21. World Population Distribution
Pattern of Unevenness
Ecumene
Permanently inhabited areas of the earth’s surface
Nonecumene
The uninhabited or very sparsely occupied zone, does include the permanent ice caps and large segments of the tundra and coniferous forest of northern Asia and North America
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22. Population Density Density Measures Overpopulation Urbanization
Arithmetic
Physiological
Agricultural
Overpopulation
Carrying Capacity
Urbanization
Arithmetic Density
The calculation of the number of people per unit area of land, usually within the boundaries of a political entity
The figure can be misleading since it is a national average density that does not reveal any information about type of territory
some sparsely populated areas are largely undevelopable
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23. Population Density Physiological Density Agricultural Density
The ratio between the total population and the amount of land under cultivation in a give unit of area
An expression of population pressure exerted on agricultural land
Agricultural Density
The ratio between the number of agriculturalists (farmers) per unit of farmable land in a specific area
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24. Population Data and Projections
Carrying Capacity
The number of people an area can support on a sustained basis given the prevailing technology
Population Data and Projections
Population Data
Population Projections
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25. Population Controls Malthus
A British economist
In 1798 he published “An Essay on the Principle of Population and It Affects in the Future Improvement of Society”
The world’s population was increasing faster than the food supplies needed to sustain it
Population increases at what he called a geometric rate
The means of subsistence growth at an arithmetic rate
Population growth might be checked by hunger or other tragic events
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26. Population Prospects Demographic Momentum Aging
When a high proportion of the population is young, the product of past high fertility rates, larger and larger numbers enter the childbearing age each year
Aging
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27. Religions and Babies TED Talk
Supplementals
Religions and Babies TED Talk
9 Billion? A Whirlwind Trip Through
Population Trends
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200
Years, 4 Minutes