DEMOGRAPHY

DEMOGRAPHY

• the study of human population growth - explains how populations change over time.

Demographic Transition – a dramatic change in birth and death rates

• United States, Japan, and Europe population growth has stopped

• ZERO POPULATION GROWTH

In order to achieve ZPG, each couple has only 2 children

AGE STRUCTURE DIAGRAMS

• Show percentage of people alive at each age group

Which diagram above is: • 1. A country where the king orders the deaths of all the baby boys • 2. A country at war, many young men die in that war• 3. A country with poor health care for women, many die in childbirth• 4. A country where AIDS kills people in their 30s

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