GEOG 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thomas Robert Malthus, Child Mortality, Mortality Rate
28 Mar 2016
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Population = all the inhabitants in a particular area; the sum total of all individuals who live in the same geographical area. Demography = the study of the characteristics of a population. Age (how old or young is the population) Gender (what is the male to female ratio) Density (where is the population more concentrated) Growth (how fast if the population growing & why) Relates socio-economic characteristics (a geography might want to measure the income of a population) Population density = a measure of total population in relation to total land area. It is the number of people located in a particular territorial unit. Total population/ land area in square kilometers. Canada"s population density is one of the lowest in the world. Physiologic population density= the number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land. Population distribution= where on the earth"s surface people live.
