SOC312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ansley J. Coale, Demographic Transition
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Lecture 3: world population - past, present, & Repetitive critical key ideas: population momentum (increasing & decreasing) Growing at roughly 1. 2%/year, which is quite large. We have a population increase in canada approaching this, but is typically done so as a result of net migration. "less developed" countries account for 82. 4% of world population. In the realm of economics, we will usually hear "interim market" as a way to define developing/developed. This has become a greater percentage of world pop over time, because the growth rate of developed industrial countries while pop growth in poorer countries have ~exploded~. Many of these countries have experienced demographic transition of mortality decline/ fertility increase. Sometimes measure by ppl/km2 - canada: many people living in urbanized pockets, but majority rural areas. See txtbook for table 3. 1 - "demographic data" Demographers interested in "how many years it will take for the population to double. Note: huge disparities in the world in terms of growth rate.
