POLI 3424 Lecture 19: 1.1 Geography - Malthus
11 Nov 2020
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Life expectancy at birth and child mortality. Understanding and evaluating theories that explain variation in development. The expectation that a family would or would not have many children would result whether or not they had many children. If your birthrate is higher than your death rate, then your size of population is going to go up, and so forth. If you have too many people and not enough food, people are going to starve. Lower incomes higher death rate reduced population higher incomes lower death rate increased population decreased productivity (in agriculture) lower incomes (repeat) Growth in population, decline in population, growth in population, decline in population. Gdp increases, gdp decreases, gdp increases, gdp decreases. In even the poorest democracies, we haven"t seen famine. We might see poverty, but not widespread famine. On nondemocracies, we do see famine because the distribution of resources is not there. Total population in malthus"s time was way less than what we are at now.
