Robbie Jaworski and Hanna Lei Gervacio

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Global Population
and Mobility
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Global Population

 The number of living people that live in the world.

Mobility
 The movement of economic activity between people,
groups, communities or countries
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Connection

 The people within the global population are those responsible

for economic activity

 Economic activity cannot occur without mobility

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Global population

 There are 7.4 billion people in the world

 World population has increased 3 times faster in the last century

than the past two thousand years

Mobility
 Advancements in technology has lead to an increase in
movement of goods and services (e.g. types of transportation,
satellites, internets, electronic transactions)
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Graph Shows:

 Rapid increase in population has also lead to a rapid growth in

economic development and advancements through the
movement of goods and services within countries and from one
another

 Serves as a sign that the population is getting too high for

environmental and economic sustainability and sufficient
mobility
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The Effect of Global Population and
Mobility to the Contemporary World
(pros and cons if population is high)
Advantages Disadvantages (costs)
Allows a large work-force to produce Overpopulation causes abuse of
more economic output natural resources

High GDP Lower GDP

Good balance of population and Mobility within the country is more
consumption of resources leads to difficult
sustainable economic development

Allows imports and exports to flow Things remain underdeveloped for a

more freely longer period of time
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The Worlds $80 Trillion Economy
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Citations

 https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth

 https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/gdp_share/

 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12340773

 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/10/the-80-trillion-world-e
conomy-in-one-chart