SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Mortality Rate, Canadian Natural Resources, Suncor Energy
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And studies how and why ppl move from place to place. Th incidence of death in a society"s pop. Number of deaths among infants under one year for each 1000 live births. Average life span of a country"s pop. (canadian males 80, females 84) Fertility, mortality and migration affect the size of a society"s pop. Calculated by subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate. Natural growth rate in canada in 2009-10 was 3. 8% per 1000. High income countries grow as much or more from immigration than fertility. Taking net migration into account, canada"s growth rate is roughly 0. 5% per year. In the past ppl favoured large families for productivity. Malthus warned of impending doom based on pop. Ppl reproducing at rates that exceed their ability to produce sufficient food. Based upon the belief that pop patterns reflect a society"s level of technological development. For the most apart, both theories are inaccurate.