GEOG 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Baud, Mortality Rate, Vital Record

• School: UND
• Department: Geography and Geographic Information Science
• Course: GEOG 151
• Professor: Enru Wang

Document Summary

Demography: characteristics of a human population, births, deaths, marriages, migration, etc, use a variety of instruments and institutions to measure populations, census, vital records, limitations, cost. Distribution and composition: geographic reasons, environmental and physical factors, water, elevation, climate, political and economic experiences, cultural characteristics. Population composition: subgroups that constitute population, for example, proportion male vs. female, or active in the workforce compared to seniors and children, helps us understand how the population behaves now and in the future. Age-sex pyramids: shape of pyramid is dependent on proportion of people in each age cohort. Population cohorts: common temporal demographic experience, dependency ratio, (<15 & 64