GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Industrial Revolution, Female Education, Demographic Transition

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG101
• Professor: Elijah Bisung

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Geog 101 lecture 6 jan. 20th, 2016. Total numbers & composition: distribution & movement. Human population grew slowly and steadily for thousands of years as farming and urbanization increased life expectancies and quality of life. Outbreaks of the bubonic plague during the fourteenth century reduced populations by as many as 75 million people worldwide. In the past three centuries, the world population has risen rapidly, primarily as a result of declines in child mortality and improvements in sanitation and medicine that followed the industrial revolution. Density (cid:498)death from ()v/a)ds, and reduced number of resulting births, will reduce the world"s population by (cid:856)00 million below what would have otherwise been in 20(cid:857)0(cid:499). Four african countries with >20% rates of hiv infection will see population decreases. As a result, the population line graph will decline after 2000. Arithmetic (crude) density: divide: a country"s population by its total land area (dis-including things like lakes, mountains)