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Population Geography:
Essential Questions
• Where is the world's population
distributed?
• Where has the world's population
increased?
• Why is population increasing at different
rates in different countries?
• Why might the world face an
overpopulation problem?
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Population Geography
• Density refers to the frequency
with which something occurs
• Distribution refers to the
arrangement of a feature in
space
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Population Density
• a measure of the number of
people per unit area of land
– arithmetic: people per unit area of
land
– physiologic: people supported by
arable land
– agricultural: farmers to amount of
arable land
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World Population
Density
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United States Density
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United States Density
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Minnesota Density
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China
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Population Distribution
• describes the locations on the
Earth’s surface where people
live
• Australia
• Egypt
• Mexico
• Canada
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Bangladesh
• Population: 144,000,000
• Area: 144,000 sq miles
• 62% arable land (89,280 sq
miles)
• physiologic density=1612 people
per square mile of arable land
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Montana/United States
• Montana Population: 145,000
• Area: 902,195 square miles
• 18% arable land = 162,395 square miles
• Physiologic density = 1119 per square mile
• US Population: 300,000,000
• Area: 3,717,810 square miles
• 19% arable land = 706,383 square miles
• Physiologic density = 424 per square mile
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World Population
Concentrations
• East Asia
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Europe
In the three Asian clusters, more than ½ the
world’s population lives on less than 10% of the
world’s land.
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World Population
Clusters
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East Asia
• China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan
– 1/5 the world’s total population
– 5/6 of the region’s population live in
China, mostly river and coastal regions
– 2/3 of people in China live as farmers in
rural areas
– In Japan and Korean Peninsula, ¾+ live
in urban areas and work in industry and
service
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South Asia
• India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri
Lanka
– 1/5 the world’s population
– most are rural farmers (3/4), not
city dwellers
– centered along Ganges and Indus
river valleys, lowlands and coastal
areas
– restrained by mountains
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Southeast Asia
• Indonesia, Papua New Guinea,
Philippines
– Island nations in the Pacific
– Around river valleys and deltas
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Europe
• Britain, Germany, Poland,
Ukraine, Belarus, France, N Italy
– ¾ live in cities
– Less than 20% are farmers
– Highest concentration near coal
fields
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Subordinate Regions
• Eastern US
– Bosnywash, Chicago, Detroit,
Cleveland, California
– In Europe and North America,
cities and towns more densely
populated that rural areas
– Megalopolis
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Subordinate Regions
• Western Africa
– Nigeria most populous African
country
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Population Stats
• Birth Rate
– number of live births per year per 1000
people in the population
– +30 is high
– highest today in Africa and SW Asia
– lowest in Europe
– inversely related to modernization,
industrialization, urbanization and
economic development
– exception: China
– US: 14/1000
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Population Stats
• Death Rate
– number of deaths per thousand
people in a given year
– highest in tropical Africa
– lowest in N America, S America,
Europe, Japan, Australia
– high CDR’s tend to reflect high
infant mortality
– US: 8/1000
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Population Stats
• Natural Increase
– difference between number of births and
deaths during a specific time period
– US: .88%
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1950- 1955- 1960- 1965- 1970- 1975- 1980- 1985- 1990- 1995- 2000-
1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
Ukraine 1.12
Bulgaria 1.24
Belarus 1.24
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Population Stats
• Infant Mortality Rate
– the number of children who die
before they reach one year
– US: 6.3/1000
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Measuring Growth
• Linear Growth
– increases in a uniform amount
during a series of equal time
periods
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Measuring Growth
• Exponential Growth
– increases in a compounding
amount over a series of equal time
periods
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Measuring Growth
• Doubling Time
– the time it takes to double a
country’s population
– 70 / NIR = Doubling Time
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World Population Growth, in Billions
Number of years to add each billion (year)
Third 30 (1960)
Fourth 15 (1975)
1st Billion: 1800 years
Fifth 12 (1987) 2nd Billion: 130 years
4th Billion: 45 years
Sixth 12 (1999) 8th Billion: 52 years
Seventh 14 (2013)
Eighth 14 (2027)
Ninth 21 (2048)
Sources: First and second billion: Population Reference Bureau. Third through ninth billion: United Nations, World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision (medium
scenario), 2005.
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Measuring Growth
• Population Explosion
– refers to the rapid growth of the
world’s population during the last
century accompanied by ever
shorter doubling times and
accelerating rates of increase
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Population Geography
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Population Geography
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Population Center of the
US
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