This slide set focuses on population issues.

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This slide set focuses on population issues.
The topic of population is addressed in the
text in chapter 4. Pay attention to pages 75
77, 81 83, 85-87. Figures 4.4, table 4.2, 4.8,
4.9, 4.11, 4.13, 4.19, are useful to
study. Vocabulary J curve, rule of 70,
doubling time, crude birth rate, total fertility
rate, crude death rate, life expectancy,
demographic transition, family planning.
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Population
We are here ?
You were born?
Dr McC was born?
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How densely populated is the world?
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Population Density New York City 10 million
people in 1000 square miles (10,000/ mi2) New
York State 18 million people in 49,000 square
miles (300/ mi2) So, if the whole of New York
state were as densely populated as NYC, then the
state could easily hold 490 million people that
is more than the combined population of Canada,
the USA, Mexico and the entire Caribbean all
those people could live in NY state and the
entire rest of North America and the Caribbean
could be completely empty Jakarta, Indonesia
has 10 million people but is only 70 square
miles. It has 140,000 people per square mile.
Tokyo, Japan has twice the population of New
York in approximately the same area. Mexico City
has nearly quadruple the population of NYC Cairo
has a much larger population, perhaps twice as
large, in a space only about 1/8 the size.
Rwanda in central Africa has 25,000 square
kilometers of land, and well over 10,000,000
people New England has about 250,000 square
kilometers and about 12,000,000 people. Britain
has 244,000 square kilometers and about 60
million people. Bangladesh has 144,000 square
kilometers and 144,000,000 people. Source CIA
World Factbook)
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Approximate Population Sizes of Large
Countries China 1300 million India 1100
million USA 300 million Indonesia 238
million Brazil 185 million Pakistan 159
million Russia 143 million Bangladesh 141
million Japan 127 million Nigeria 126
million Phillippines 86 million Vietnam 82
million Germany 82 million Egypt 76
million (Source World Factbook)
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Fig 4.4
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Fig 4.19
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Fig 4.11
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• The average age of the USA according to the US
  Census
• 29
• 1990 33
• 2010 39
• World average age in 2007 25
• About 1/3rd of the world is children under 14
• In the USA fewer than 1/5 are under 14

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Indonesia vs USA Population 234 million vs
300 million population under 14 28 vs
20 Average kids per family 2.4 vs
2.0 Projected of kids in generation Y
28 x 234 families (young people in
2010) families x 2.4 33 million 20 x 300
families families x 2.0 30
million Projected kids in generation Z 73
million vs 60 million (young kids in
2030) Population projected for 2030 293
million vs 324 million Population projected for
2050 370 million vs 360 million India has
1100 million people, 32 are under 15 years of
age. The current average of kids is 2.8 per
family. So, for India the number of Generation
Z kids is projected to be 500 million. India
is 3x larger than the USA now, but they will
have 7x as many kids in the next
generation. (source World Factbook CIA US
Govt)
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Why do women in LDC countries have so many
children?
Providence Journal Wednesday April 14,
1999 Ruling sets Zimbabwean Womens Status back
Decades The nations Supreme Court said that
the nature of African Society dictates that
women are not equal to men. soft-spoke Vennia
Magaya was evicted from her deceased fathers
house, her TV set and oven thrown out into the
yard after her, she thought it wasnt right. So
she sued her half brother for evicting her. She
had a compelling case. The nations constitution,
a separate law enforcing womens rights, and
several international human rights treaties that
Zimbabwe had signed clearly backed her claim to
her fathers estate. But in a stunning reversal
of fortune for Zimbabwean womenthe nations
Supreme Court overruled or challenged every law
related to womens rights and gave the house to
her half-brother. In a landmark 5-0 decision,
the court said the nature of African society
dictates that women are not equal to men,
especially in family relationships. The court
said centuries old African cultural norms, which
are not written down, say a woman should never be
considered an adult but only as a Junior Male
or teenager. Experts say the rulingstrips
Zimbabwean women of almost all the rights they
had gained since the nation broke free of
colonial rule Basically, theres nothing
left of the gains womens rights have made in the
past 20 years, said Welshman Ncube, the
nations premier scholar on constitutional and
family law. Its a full bench decision by the
Supreme Court. There is no appeal. They meant to
settle this question once and for all.