GEOG 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Population Geography
12 Apr 2016
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Populaion geography: how do we think about populaions and how is this geographical, why do populaions grow or decline in paricular places. Demography - study the composiion/characterisics of a populaion (age, sex, race) Populaions geographers study of why populaion have certain characterisics and why are they distributed across space in a certain way. Example of canada and how much land we have, populaion density of canada, physiologic (pg. Same quesions answered like the canada one ^ Rate of natural increase: number of births/ number of deaths, 10 births 5 deaths = +5rns. General ferility rates: actual number of live births per 1000 women of childbearing age, deined as between 15 and 49. Gnr = number of live births in one year period x 1000 women: mid year number of females aged 15-49 years.
