GEOG 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ester Boserup, Child Mortality, Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill
29 May 2016
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Demography study the composition/characteristics of a population (age, sex, race) Population geog study of why population have certain characteristics and why are they distributed across space in a certain way. Fig 4. 11: age-sex pop py for canada, 2006. Fig 4. 12: median age and number of children in canada. Decilned when birth control pill was introduced (1960"s) The population growth debate: malthus (food supply wasn"t growing fast enough. Serious concern for the world wondering if they can feed itself. : paul ehrlich"s book population bomb (1968) (china overpop, esther boserup (mid 1960"s she talks about humanities to produce new tech= new foods. Never thought that globalization would occur: population change (world, regional, national, local) Number of births number of deaths. 10 births 5 deaths =+ 5 (rni) Canada rna 2010 was 2. 99 per thousand: general fertility rates. General fertility rate: actual number of live births per 1000 women of childbearing age, defined as between 15 and 49.
