GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Birth Rate, Population Geography, Mortality Rate
26 Sep 2016
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Population dynamics: globally, population can only change 2 ways: Number of births (b) in a given year divided by the population (p) Multiple by 1000 to get dense answer. Problem: doesn"t take account of the key measures of fertility; we don"t care how many men there are in a population. All we care about is how many births are occurring relative to the number of women in their childbearing years. A) the number of women in the population, and: the number of women of child-bearing age (15-49) Challenges: need to have a more precise understanding (how many births, people, and how many females are at a certain age range) Average (estimate) number of children a woman will have. Replacement rate (how many children a woman has to have in order to replace her/partner in her lifetime); stable population: ex. Woman has to have 2 children to replace her and partner but should have more since some women don"t/can"t have children.
