GEOG 100 Lecture 3: Week3 notes

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 100
• Professor: Gosia Bryja

Document Summary

Study of population distribution and its variation (where?) Reasons of these variations spatial relationships (why?) Three main dimensions of population geography: population distribution, population density, population change/dynamics. What are the factors that might be responsible for this pattern: how to measure population, arithmetic density. Average/ crude density = number of people per area of land: physiological density// farmland/nutritional density (arable land area) Number of people per unit area of arable land. Crude birth rate (cbr) = the annual number of live births per 1000 people. Only the general child birth trend, without knowing who are giving births, hard to understand the dynamics. Average number of chidlren a women will have (is expected to have) throughout her childbearing years (15-49) given current birth rates. Demographers are looking on how many women in a given population and how many are in their reproductive age and calculate what happening in this period.