Chapter 2: Population Flashcards
What does TFR stand for?
Total fertility rate
What is one reason couples delay starting a family?
To be better prepared financially and women want to pursue jobs.
Which continent has no country above the TFR?
Europe
What are the economic impacts of an aging population?
The young population has to pay more to support the elderly.
What do countries depend on to better their economy and have a larger working population?
Immigration
What is Japan’s population doing?
Nothing, it has stopped growing and because it discourages immigration and encourages homogeneity, it will not see much growth in the future.
How do countries feel about the falling TFR’s in general?
Countries are starting to realize the importance of a young working population and are offering incentives to their citizens in hopes of producing more children.
What is demography?
The study of population
What is population density?
A measure of an area’s total population relative to its land size.
What does population density assume?
Even distribution of population over the land.
What is arithmetic population density?
The total number of people divided by the total land area.
What does arithmetic population density not account for?
The concentration of population in certain places, e.g. people tend to settle near water which isn’t shown in arithmetic population density
What is physiological population density?
The number of people per unit area of agriculturally productive land.
What kinds of maps are used to measure population distribution?
Dot maps
Which three regions of the world make up most of the world’s population?
East Asia, South Asia, and Europe
How did Thomas Malthus say food and population grew?
Food grew linearly, Population grew exponentially
What did Paul Ehrlich say about the population?
Ehrlich said that the world population was growing too quickly, faster than global food production.
How do you calculate natural increase?
Subtract deaths from births. (Births-Deaths)
What is doubling time?
Doubling time refers to the amount of time it takes for a population to double.
True or False? Demographers believe the high correlation between high growth rate and low standing of women contribute to a high natural increase rate.
True
What do all slow growing populations tend to have more of?
Money: they are typically wealthier.
Which country’s population is declining because of social dislocation?
Russia
What does local population growth examine?
Demographic variations within countries
What is a demographic transition?
A shift in population growth
