POPULATION

CONTENT
DEFINATION
FACTORS AFFECTING THE POPULATION
GROWTH:

-Birth rate
-Death rate
-Net migration rate
POPULATION PYRMIDS
- Example

 Population
What is population?

• Population refers to
the total number of
inhabitants of a
particular country.

• Population growth
refers to to the rate of
change in the size of the
country’s population
 FACTORS AFFECT THE
POPULATION GROWTH
• Birth rate
measures the number of live
births per thousand of the
population in year

• Death rate
measures the number of deaths
per thousand of the population
in a year

• Net migration rate

measures the difference
between migration and
emigration rates fora country,
thus indicating its physical
movement of people into and
out of a country

NET MIGRATION RATE = IMMIGRATION - EMIGRATION

 Population pyramid

• Population pyramids are graphical representation

of the age and gender distribution of a country’s
population
 CHINA 2020
• Population pyramid-
example
• Birth rate - (12.00)
million

• Death rate -(7.402)

Deaths per thousand
inhabitants

• Net migration rate-

(-0.249) per 1000
population