Population Pyramids
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The Hidden Momentum of Population Growth
Activity 1: Matching Demographic Descriptions with Population Pyramids
Note: the spreadsheet software performs significantly better with Microsoft Internet Explorer® than with Netscape®. If you don’t have Internet Explorer®—or if you do but Human Geography in Action opens automatically in Netscape®—see the readme.txt file or the instruction sheet that came with the CD. It will tell you how to install Internet Explorer® from the CD (it’s included!) and/or make it your default browser.
A. Go to http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=resource&bcsId=8089&itemId=1118422570&resourceId=32085
B. Select 5.1-Matching Demographic …show more content…
Match the verbal description of a country’s demographic composition (at the top of the screen) with the correct population pyramid. Click on the pyramid to check your answer. To go to the next description, click on the Next Description arrow in the right margin. Write the correct answer and the country name here:
Description 1: ”A country with rapid population growth” matches population pyramid __________ Country name ________________.
Description 2: ”A country which shows the demographic effects of World War II” matches population pyramid __________ Country name ________________.
Description 3: _”A country at close to ZPG (zero population growth)” matches population pyramid __________ Country name ________________.
Description 4: “A country that has undergone a recent shift from high to low …show more content…
What would India’s total population be in the year 2100? ____________________.
2.18. Under this high-fertility assumption, in which five-year period would India’s population surpass the world’s current entire population of 7.125 billion? ________________________.
2.19. What would happen to the base of the pyramid over the first 25 years? ____________________.
Scenario 6: Low Fertility
J. In order to control population growth in China—a country with over 1.25 billion people—the government enforced strict economic and social incentives for families to have only one child. Because not everybody complied with the policy, the 2000 total fertility rate in China was 1.8 (rather than the sought-after TFR of 1.0). Assume the Indian government applied the same measures, and this TFR was reached by 2020. Set the Final Total Fertility Rate to 1.8, and the Years to Achieve Final TFR to 10.
2.20. In what year would death rates surpass birth rates? _____________________.
2.21. What would happen to the total population at that time? _________________.
2.22. What is the population at which it would peak? ______________________.
2.23. What would be the difference in population between the peak year and the final year, 2100?
The Hidden Momentum of Population Growth
Activity 1: Matching Demographic Descriptions with Population Pyramids
Note: the spreadsheet software performs significantly better with Microsoft Internet Explorer® than with Netscape®. If you don’t have Internet Explorer®—or if you do but Human Geography in Action opens automatically in Netscape®—see the readme.txt file or the instruction sheet that came with the CD. It will tell you how to install Internet Explorer® from the CD (it’s included!) and/or make it your default browser.
A. Go to http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=resource&bcsId=8089&itemId=1118422570&resourceId=32085
B. Select 5.1-Matching Demographic …show more content…
Match the verbal description of a country’s demographic composition (at the top of the screen) with the correct population pyramid. Click on the pyramid to check your answer. To go to the next description, click on the Next Description arrow in the right margin. Write the correct answer and the country name here:
Description 1: ”A country with rapid population growth” matches population pyramid __________ Country name ________________.
Description 2: ”A country which shows the demographic effects of World War II” matches population pyramid __________ Country name ________________.
Description 3: _”A country at close to ZPG (zero population growth)” matches population pyramid __________ Country name ________________.
Description 4: “A country that has undergone a recent shift from high to low …show more content…
What would India’s total population be in the year 2100? ____________________.
2.18. Under this high-fertility assumption, in which five-year period would India’s population surpass the world’s current entire population of 7.125 billion? ________________________.
2.19. What would happen to the base of the pyramid over the first 25 years? ____________________.
Scenario 6: Low Fertility
J. In order to control population growth in China—a country with over 1.25 billion people—the government enforced strict economic and social incentives for families to have only one child. Because not everybody complied with the policy, the 2000 total fertility rate in China was 1.8 (rather than the sought-after TFR of 1.0). Assume the Indian government applied the same measures, and this TFR was reached by 2020. Set the Final Total Fertility Rate to 1.8, and the Years to Achieve Final TFR to 10.
2.20. In what year would death rates surpass birth rates? _____________________.
2.21. What would happen to the total population at that time? _________________.
2.22. What is the population at which it would peak? ______________________.
2.23. What would be the difference in population between the peak year and the final year, 2100?