GEG 1302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Demographic Transition, Core Countries, Population Geography
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Population geography is a spacial perspective that explains the spatial differentiation of population distribution, patterns and processes as well as implications and impacts of these differences. Degree of accessibility, topography, soil fertility climate and weather, water availability and quality are some of the important factors that shape population distribution. A country"s political and economic experience can also affect population density. Crude density (arithmetic density): the total number of people divided by the total land area. Baby boom: the increased number of births in the two decades following wwii. Geodemographic analysis: the practice of assessing the location and composition of particular populations. Age-sex pyramid: a representation of the population based on its composition of age and sex. Cohort: a group of individuals who share a common temporal demographic experience. Dependency ratio: the measure of the economic impact of the young and old on the more economical productive members of the population.