EES 0842 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Demographic Transition, Population Geography, Infant Mortality
20 Oct 2016
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Educational and economic opportunities, especially for women. Access to family planning services and contraceptives. Expectation regarding infant mortality, old age, etc. Type of economy (agricultural vs industrial, etc. ) The rate of population growth is slowing down. Fertility rate is downing down but population is still growing, because fertility and family rate has not yet reached a global level. # of people is growing, the rate at which it is growing is dropping. Model of population growth and stabilization as societies transition from agricultural to industrialized economies. People are having a lot of kids, and a lot of those infants are dying. Death rate drops, likely because of scientific/technological advances helping infant mortality and lengthening lifespan. Suggests population growth is less biological and sexually driven than maltheus though, and more contextual/historical. No urbanization/industrialization-> very rural & below average gdp per capita. Egalitarian (spreads the wealth) better than average access to health care.
