ENV-1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Total Fertility Rate
13 Sep 2016
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Factors affecting death rates: increased good supply and distribution. Mdcs have enough supply widely distributed at a reasonable price = lower death rate: nutrition. Mdcs have more consistent better quality food: medical and public health services. Mdcs have better health care services = lower death rate: sanitation and personal hygiene. Higher death rates with lack of infrastructure = ldcs: clean water. Better water quality in mdcs = lower death rate. Death rates characterized by: life expectancy, higher life expectancy = lower death rate. World average 65 for men, 69 for women. Swaziland 31 for men, 32 for women: infant mortality. Death per 1000 babies under 1 year = higher death rate. Migration: immigration people move into a region, emigration people move out of a region, migration accounts for approximately 1% population change for an area per year, most change is due to changes in birth and death rates.
