GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Total Fertility Rate, Demographic Transition, Mortality Rate
9 May 2016
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We are often reminded that population problems confront our world today: overpopulation, ecological problems (too many people, not enough resources) How is population distributed around the world: world population distribution. Some regions are very densely populated; some are hardly populated at all. If there are population problems confronting the world, it is not that there are too many people (a value judgment), but that there are too many in certain places. The densest population clusters appear in 2 main types of natural environments: fertile river valleys of the tropics and subtropics, coastal plans of the multitudes. 4 main population clusters: east asia, south asia, western europe, north america. About 75% of the world"s population lives in these 4 areas. 40% live in just 2: east and south asia. Java i: nile valley, central mexico, southeastern south america, nigeria and parts of north africa.
