GEOGRAPH 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cheryl Perera
20 Feb 2017
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Around the equator and 50 degrees north latitude. If you look back 2,000 years, you"d see similar patterns of population densities, people live at the places where it"s easiest to live in. Arithmetic density: the number of people per unit area of land. Physiological density: the number of people per unit area of arable land. The # of live births occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year, per 1,000 mid-year total population of the given geographical area during the same year. Total fertility rate (tfr) aka replacement rate. Number of children a woman will have on average between ages 14 and 45. Birth rates are higher in agrarian societies than in industrial ones, one of the reasons being you need help to work in the fields . In urban areas especially, there were exceptions to the rule. Totalitarian to tell someone they cant have multiple kids.
