GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Division Of Labour, Neolithic Revolution
25 Jan 2018
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Current global population is 7. 3 billion (dec 2017 7. 6 bil) Top 5 most populous countries: china has the highest populations (1. 35 billion or 19% of total population, india 1. 3 billion 17, usa 318 million 4. 5, indonesia 251 million 3. 4, brazil 203 million 2. 8% Canada"s population is 35 million ranked 35th most populated countries. Un estimated that by 2050 population might by 9. 7 billion. Current population 7. 3 billion: annual increase of population 75 million (death rate-birth rate= increase, where do these people live, what factors underlie this distribution, what implications are there for this distribution (describe, explain, interpret) Demography: the study of population (demos = people, graphe = to write about: spacial components of demography, population distribution, variations in density, fertility or mortality, health. Of concern to geographers: growth or decline of populations over time, spatial differential growth (or decline) of population (131 million births per year, 13% were born in good economic developed regions in the world (canada, australia, etc)
