Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Birth Rate, Poverty Reduction, Population Geography
5 Dec 2012
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Geography of population: distribution, structure, dynamics, & politics. From the greek: demos populace, people, graphie to write about. Population geography the study of the spatial components of geography. 20th century the century of population explosion (currently 7 billion people on earth) Population explosion is overwhelmingly occurring in developing countries. Nearly half of the world population are urbanites. Almost 90% of people live in north of the equator. A large proportion occupy a small land surface: (90% on less than 20% of the land) Majority of population congregate at lowland areas. Continental margins have the largest concentration of people. Most clustered areas: east asia, south asia, europe, north east united states, Distribution of canada"s population: 70% south of 49th parallel. Ecuene habitable area of the landscape (most people live here) Nonecumene uninhabitable area: the northern part of the country mostly covered by ice (cannot grow crops, etc. )
