Geography 2143A/B : Geography 2143A - Population Readings.docx
31 Jan 2014
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Bought at birth in the next few years, half of global families will be having 2. 1 or below fertility rate: the number of children the average woman will have: global average is 2. 33 replacement level of fertility: the level where population stabilizes, if there were no deaths during childhood, the figure would be 2. 0, deaths during childhood result in a number of 2. 1, lowest in russia, japan, brazil, indonesia, china, and southern india, despite dropping rates, population inertia results in growth in iran, when the clerical regime took power in 1979, family planning was abolished and fertility rate was 7 by 1984, then fell to 1. 9 in 2006 in general, fertility rates are highest below ,000 ,000 income a year, rates begin to drop above ,000 10,000 of income, basically: poor = more children, rich = less children in general, poor families have one more child than they hoped for.
