GEOG 205 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fertile Crescent, Jutes, Demographic Transition
2 Dec 2016
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The total world population is 7. 28 billion as of thursday. 10 most populous countries (2015) *only need to know first three. Population is very unevenly distributed around the world: mexico, philippines, egypt, vietnam, ethiopia, germany, iran, turkey, thailand, democratic republic of congo. Notice density through the rest of the world is fairly low. Much of the world had very low population density. Number of people/unit area (square km or square miles) for total area of country. World average is overall less crowded than ireland(152), france(285), switzerland (467), italy (505) Densely populated areas can have low cbr (china, europe) Sparsely populated areas can have high cbr (east africa) Average number of children born per woman during all her reproductive years (15-49) Tfr necessary for a population to replace itself. 2. 1 not 2, some females will die before they give birth and some children will die so you need the spare. Economic (kids to work or care for parents)
