SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Edge City, Physical Security, Counterurbanization
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Slow population growth in canada, yet worldwide a significant increase: the world"s population of 7. 4 billion in 2016 increases by 80 million each year , by 2050, there will be over 9 billion people. Virtually all of this growth will come in the lower-income nations. The population in many high-income nations will likely decrease over this period. The subfield of sociology that examines population size, composition, and distribution. Demography is important because the nature of population affects all aspects of social life. Increases or decreases in population have a powerful impact on the social, economic, and political structures of societies. Demographers define population as a group of people who live in a specified geographic area. Changes in populations occur as a result of three processes: fertility (births, mortality (deaths, migration (movement from one place to another) Population issues and urban growth: the demographic transition.
