 | Population Geography
After reading and studying this chapter you should be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the world's population, and explain how it has changed in the past two centuries.
- Define the various measures used to analyze population.
- Understand the cultural and physical factors which account for the geographic distribution of fertility, mortality and natural increase.
- Construct and analyze a population pyramid from data on a population's age and sex composition.
- Understand the stages of the demographic transition model and be able to connect each stage to present-day areas of the world.
- Estimate a country's position in the demographic transition using its birth and death rates.
- Identify the differences in population characteristics and growth rates between the developed world and the developing world.
- Locate on a map the most and least densely populated areas of the world and explain their geographic distribution.
- Distinguish, using the idea of carrying capacity, between areas that are overpopulated and those that are not.
- Describe the relationship between urbanization, population growth, and density.
- Discuss population controls over time and differentiate between natural and artificial population controls.
- Evaluate Malthus' concept of population growth in light of twentieth-century knowledge about demographic processes.
- Define population momentum and describe its implications for future population growth.
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