Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Population Geography, Canada Pension Plan, Natalism
4 Mar 2020
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Human populations: ups, downs, movements: distributions and patterns, measures, policies for problems, forecast models, movement and migration. Human geography + people = population geography. The study of then spatial component of demography (study of populations) Implications for such distributions: growth by the numbers (2018) World: 7. 6 billion + 226,00 daily (1. 1% annual) Canada: 36 million: world population growth over time. 20th century - the century of population explosion . Monday, january 29, 2018: world population distribution. Continental margins have the largest concentration of people. Most clustered areas: east asia 25, shut asia 21, europe 12, ne usa <1% Over 50% of the worlds population are urbanites as of 2007. Almost 90% of people live north of the equator between tropic of cancer (23 degrees north) and 55 degrees north (london is 43% north) A large population occupy a small land surface (90% on less than 20% of the land)
