GEOG 1F90 Lecture 6: GEOG1F90 Population Geography.docx
25 May 2015
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Geog1f90 population geography: how do we think about populations being geographical, how many and what sorts of people inhabit different parts of the world, different groups of people locate in distinct regions, demography: study of the composition/characteristics of a population (age, sex, race, population geographers: take the data and information provided by demographers, they study why populations have certain characteristics and why are they distributed across space in a certain ways (why are there more men than women in certain places?, population pyramids maps that show the density of people from certain groups. Usually organized in 5 year increments: why do populations grow or decline in certain places, rate of natural increase, general fertility rates (baby boomers, replacement levels how many births do we need to replace the population, how do governments effect population change, they can influence family size through taxation, government policies:
