GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Baby Boom, Natalism
20 Oct 2017
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Africa has had the highest growth in the past 100 years. Europe and north america have grown very little. The global population is said to have grown exponentially. People suspect that it"ll level off at around 12 billion. Effects of this are: pressure on governments to provide for their population, pressure on the environment, greater risk of famine and malnutrition as we consume all of our resources, greater disparities between medcs and ledcs. The youthful population (youthful economically dependent) is known as people between 0 and 15 years of age. The economically active population is between 15 and 65 years of age. In population pyramids there are usually some form of bulges or indents on either one or both sides of the graph. Reasons for this may be: high/low birth rate or death rate, high/low life expectancy, baby boom, government policies (pro-/anti- natalist)
