GGR208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Homo Erectus, Population Geography, Primitive Accumulation Of Capital
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Boyle optional reading: highlights the gender aspect of immigration. Europe"s pop will shrink over the coming decades. This pop decline is already seen in several eastern european countries, including. Hungary, romania, and ukraine, which had negative growth rates, while the pop of western europe, including france, barely grew: less developed economies, remainder of the countries in the world, (cid:1013)(cid:1012)% of the (cid:449)orld"s pop, least developed economies. In 1975, only 3(cid:1007)% of the (cid:449)orld"s pop lived in urban areas. I(cid:374) (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1005)(cid:1010), appro(cid:454)i(cid:373)atel(cid:455) (cid:1009)(cid:1008)% of the (cid:449)orld"s pop li(cid:448)ed i(cid:374) ur(cid:271)a(cid:374) areas: approximately 78% of the pop in developed economies lives in urban areas compared to. Improvement in life expectancy which will contribute to growth: age structure of pop greater numbers of people in child-bearing years. Inverse of the pop structure in less and least developed world than developed world: younger in less and least and older in developed, demographers expect that fertility rates will eventually decline below.
