GEO-1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: One-Child Policy, Demographic Transition, Cartogram
Document Summary
Physical environments that are too dry, too cold, too wet, or too mountainous tend to have fewer inhabitants. Cartogram; depicts the size of countries according to population rather than land area. Arithmetic density: the total number of people divided by the land area. Physiological density: the number of people supported by a unit area of people supported by a unit area of arable land. Agricultural density: the ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land. Natural increase rate (nir): the percentage by which a population grows in a year. Crude birth rate: the total number of live births in a year for 1,000 people alive in the society. Crude death rate: the total number of deaths in a year for every 1,00 people alive. Overpopulation: number of people exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
