There are two different views on population growth.

The global perspective of population

growth. Demographics of the country is when we look at the number of births, deaths, and

overall, the population growth. If you go to a third world country their government health and

school system are lacking or have you don’t see a lot of it. Demographics are really about the

size composition growth and distribution of human populations. When we talk about these

places, birth rates are very high and death rates have dropped. Population in the least

industrialized continue to climb ever so slightly but still climbing. If you lack medical care or

schools, and an economy that help keep people out of poverty and add more children to that

you get overpopulated, too many people, outs a huge strain on a country. We have a 3.2

percent unemployment rate in the United States. We can’t find people to work these jobs.

Either people don’t want them, or they can pick and choose their job. It’s important to look at

that because in least industrialized if the rate of people being born continues to rise one of the

main things that will happen is the whole famine. If it keeps growing the nation can become

poorer and poorer. Population shrinkage when you have a population that’s smaller when the

amount of people coming into the country, and you can’t have enough people replacing them.

The children in China the first-born male is supposed to take care of his parents. It’s his

responsibility to take care of them. China doesn’t have enough people to keep their economy

going which is unusual for Chine because of their birthrate to work these jobs. There are people

who believe we have too many people in the world, and some feel we have too little people in

the world. How do we control birth rate? People who think we have to many people think about

how we will run out of food and have a famine. It’s a huge issue. We see the most famine in

Africa. Famine have been recently concentrated in Africa their famines are due to a drought.
Outdated farming techniques, political disputes and kinks in the food chains. Rapid population

growth downside is that it a huge drain on housing, on food production, on transportation, on

the education system, and much more. First theory stop having more kids. Second theory is we

need to have a growing birthrate. In poor nations children are a statis to their parents. Children

are there for community support and the big deal about children in poor nations they are

economic assets because they can work to support the family. They can rely on them just not

for food but also taking care of them when they’re old. Some of the consequences when the

populations grow fast are that the country may not have the available jobs, housing, or food for

all these people. Also, transportation. These people end up super poor and on the streets.

Fertility – Measures the number of children, looks at three demographics, number of children,

average woman’s age that are having these children, and the average fertility rate of the

country, the world mortality is the death rate – how many people die. Migration - is really

immigrants moving from one place to another. They move between regions in a country.

They’re pushed to leave where they’re living because of lack of economics. They’re looking for

better opportunity to support their families. they’re moving from poor nations to the

industrialized nations. The move to escape poverty basically. Our immigration system is broken,

we can’t come up with a decent policy. There’s a debate whether immigrants are contributing to

the economy or draining the economy. It’s gone on for years and years and years. We’ve always

had discrimination against immigrants. We’re the products of immigrants. One of the important

factors is why don’t people have more kids in the United States is because its expensive to have

children and to educate them is expensive. When you have children there’s an economic

responsibility. One of the struggles with us and other countries is that we produce much of
what we eat, we also import much of what we eat, so we need to have enough food to take

care of the population.