SOC312H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Animal Husbandry, Upper Paleolithic, Demographic Transition
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Birth and death rates 20 and 8 per 1000 population, annual rate of natural increase 1. 2 percent. Developed countries natural increase 0. 1 % o. Rest of the world natural increase between 1. 4 2. 6 % Less developed countries population - 82% of world"s population. Europe, north america, east asia: lowest birth rate (10 and 13/1000) Most of the world"s population increase happened in the past two centuries. It took hundreds of thousands of years for the human race to reach its 1960 total of 3 billion people. The number doubled over 40 years, in 2014 was 7. 2 billion. Three great population surges: o o o o: upper paleolithic period (30,000 10,000): acquisition of clothing, hunting & hunting and fishing tools, neolithic period (8000 5000): development of agriculture, animal husbandry, maritime navigation. European societies attained greater levels of modernization and socioeconomic development. Birth rates began to fall o o o o.
