GEOG 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Total Fertility Rate, Infant Mortality, Physical Abuse
31 Aug 2016
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Where you live factors into the states you would like to live and not live: ex: syracuse students don"t want to live in oklahoma and oklahoma students don"t want to live in nyc. Tfr < 2 rni < 0 population decreases: africa has high fertility rates, have birth rates, death rates. Development of modern medical science and technology. Birth rates remained high at this time, causing rapid population growth. Why did birth rates remain high: children were social security , no birth control or family planning, early marriage, religious pressures. Life expectancy: lower death rates result in high life expectancy or the age to which the average newborn baby in a given society is likely to live. International migration: migration with in countries is much more common than migration between countries, more than 90% born in a country stay in that country, 3 types of international migration. Which is when people move to a certain country for economic opportunities.
