GGR208H5 Chapter Notes -Population Geography, Infant Mortality, Demographic Transition
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Population at the start of 17th century was 500 million. Due to improvement in sanitation, medication and nutrition, world"s population is rapidly growing. 6. 8 billion (last billion in just 14 years) Most growth occurred in developing world- africa, asia, south and central america. Future growth also expected to occur in developing countries, fuelled by high birth rates and reduced death rates and young populations. To view population processes such as fertility, mortality and population movement, you have to understand issues in today"s society such as conflict, recourse use, environmental degradation and relations b/w countries and their people. Poor life expectancy and high death rates often reflect inadequate health care, failure of gov"t to provide necessities and poor education. Countries also tied by population movement such as war, refugee movement. Major refugee-producing countries by mid-2008 were sudan, iraq, afghanistan, and somalia (un- 906 mill refugees in 2007)
