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POPULATION CHANGE - geography

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- 1how has the world population changed since 1500?- At first there was a slow increase
- Over last 150 years there has been a very quick increase.
- 2what 2 things affect population change?- Birth rate
- Death rate - 3what is natural increase?When the birth rate exceeds the death rate - Population grows
- 4what is natural decrease?When the death rate exceeds the birth rate - population decreases
- 5what is the population growth like in DEVELOPING COUNTRIES vs DEVELOPED COUNTRIES?- In DEVELOPING countries there has been a much higher growth since 1970
- In DEVELOPED countries the growth has been steady (even started going down) and there are less people.
- 6what is the DTM (demographic transition model)?It shows the 5 stages of population growth.
We can use the DTM to see what stage of population growth a country is at.
-Poorer (less developed) countries are in the EARLIER stages
- Richer (more developed) countries are in the LATER stages. - 7DTM picture

- 8What is the population structure of a country and how is it shown?- It shows the amount of people in each age group and shows how many people are male/female.
- Shown as population pyramids. - 9How is each stage of the DTM shown as a population pyramid?

- 10Factors that affect the population size in an area?- Medicine
- Contraception
- Wars
- Migration
- Technology
- Education - 11Stage 1 - Population pyramid features- Mostly young people (low lifetime)
- High death rate (poor healthcare)
- High birth rate (poor contraception)
- No population growth
- 12Stage 2 - Population pyramid features- Still younger population (longer lifetime)
- High birth rate (no contraception + children needed for farmwork)
- Decreasing death rate (better healthcare)
- High population growth
- 13Stage 3 - Population pyramid features- Alot longer lifetime now
- Falling birth rate (women work,c contraception, less children for farms)
- Death rate falls (better medication)
- High population growth
- 14Stage 4 - Population pyramid features- high lifetime
- Low birth rate (people move to the city (urbanisation) - less money for children)
- Low death rate
- No population growth
- 15Stage 5 - Population pyramid features- More older people than younger
- Falling birth rate (less money for children - money used on elderly family)
- Low death rate
- Negative population growth
- 16SOCIAL IMPACTS of rapid population growth- Services like healthcare cant cope with so many people
- Not enough HOUSING ---> disease
- FOOD SHORTAGES - 17ECONOMIC IMPACTS of rapid population growth- Not enough jobs - UNEMPLOYED
- Increased POVERTY because people are born into poor families (unemployed) - 18POLITICAL IMPACTS of rapid population growth- Most of the population is young people so government focuses on young people (education, childcare) and don't focus on older people (not many older people)
- Government make policies that stop population getting too big - 192 strategies to help slow population growth- Birth control policies
- Immigration laws - 20What are BIRTH CONTROL POLICIES and how does it help us?- Government limits number of children per couple
- Government gives free contraception/advice
- This is SUSTAINABLE as resources are saved for the future - 21What are IMMIGRATION LAWS and how do they help us?- Limit number of people immigrating in
- Be selective about who they let in (less child bearers allowed in)
- This slows down population growth - 22What is population distribution?How the population is spread out across the world
- 23What is population density?The number of people that live in an area (people per square km)
- 24Reasons for population densities- Relief - flat land = better farming (dense)
- Climate - steady climate (dense)
- Resources and jobs - more resources (dense)
- Politics - stable government (dense)
- Natural disasters - less disasters (dense) - 25CASE STUDY how to manage rapid population growth - CHINA ONE CHILD POLICY - where, what and why?- In China
- Is a system where each couple can have only 1 child (unless twins, or if a RURAL couple have a girl/disabled child)
- Put in place because the population size was causing problems (resource shortage, unemployment) - 26What are the benefits of having ONE CHILD and consequence of have MORE THAN ONE CHILD?- Privilege = better housing, free education, 2 'only childs' can have 2 children together
- Don't get any privileges and are fined - 27Effectiveness of ONE CHILD POLICY- Prevented 400,000 births
- 1970 births per mother = 5
2013 births per mother = 1.5 - 28Controversy of ONE CHILD POLICY- Increased forced abortions
- Gender inequality (140 boys:100 girls)
- Increased crime (rape)
- Little Emperors - 29ONE CHILD POLICY - how is it being promoted?- ADVERTISING (radio, TV, leaflets, advice classes)
- 30CASE STUDY - INDONESIA population distribution - what, why, where?- In Indonesia
- Population not evenly distributed (caused problems such as resource shortage, lack of housing, increased poverty/unemployment)
- Millions of people moved from more dense islands to less dense islands - 31INDONESIA effectiveness- Still not that much more evenly spread
- People who moved are still poor (no skills to farm on new island)
- Conflict between natives and migrants
- OVERALL IT HASN'T WORKED - 32ECONOMIC impacts of AGEING POPULATION-Less taxes
- Alot of money from taxes goes to pension
- Less money spent on education/healthcare by government and more spent on pension - 33SOCIAL impacts of AGEING POPULATION- Harder for healthcare to cope
- People have dependent older relatives so cant afford to have many children - 342 NON-SUSTAINABLE ways of coping with an ageing poulation- Encourage LARGER FAMILIES (rewards given)
- Encourage immigration of YOUNGER, WORKING AGED PEOPLE. - 352 SUSTAINABLE ways of coping with an ageing population- RAISE RETIREMENT AGE (less pension claimed)
- RAISE TAXES (more money to support ageing population) - 36CASE STUDY - UK (ageing population) - Reasons for ageing population- Better medicine mean people live longer
- Baby booms (lots of babies born) in 1940s and 1960s
- Fewer births since 1970s - 37UK - problems of an ageing population- Government struggling to pay pension
- Not enough taxes paid (elderly don't pay taxes)
- Health service devoting alot of time to elderly
- Government focus on elderly, not future - 38UK - government strategies to cope with ageing population- Raise retirement age (60+65 ---> 68)
- Encourage immigration of young people to UK
- Encourage larger families - 39what is IMMIGRATION?- People coming INTO the country
- 40what is EMIGRATION?- people LEAVING the country
- 41What are the 2 types of Migration?- EXTERNAL MIGRANT - international migration
- INTERNAL MIGRANT -migration in the same country - 42What are PUSH factors?- Reasons to LEAVE a country (negative) - poor living conditions, lack of jobs, disease, wars, natural disaster
- 43what are PULL factors?- Reasons to move to a NEW country (positive) - better jobs, higher wages
- 44IMPACTS of migration on the ORIGINAL COUNTRY+ MONEY SENT BACK HOME
+ Less demand on SERVICES
- Fewer people to WORK (less tax payed)
- AEGING poulation - 45IMPACTS of migration on the DESTINATION COUNTRY+ More people can WORK (more taxes)
- MONEY SENT BACK HOME
- Increased demand on SERVICES
- CONFLICT - 46CASE STUDY - UK AND POLAND MIGRATION (migration in the EU) - how many people migrated from Poland to UK?- 500,000 (2004-2007)
- 47UK AND POLAND - Polish PUSH factors- High UNEMPLOYMENT (19%)
- Low wages
- Housing shortages - 48UK AND POLAND - UK PULL factors- Good EXCHANGE RATE (pound worth more than polish currency)
- EASY to migrate (UK allowed unlimited migration in 2004)
- More WORK, higher WAGES - 49IMPACTS in Poland+ Money sent back (€3 billion)
- Shortage of workers
- population of Poland fell (0.3%) - 50IMPACTS in UK+ Boosted economy
+ New polish shops (diversity) - 51CASE STUDY - SPAIN AND AFRICA (migration to the EU) - what, where and why?- Many African REFUGEES cross Mediterranean sea to get to Spain (45,000 in 2001)
- Forced to flee their homes due to WAR
- There is only a PUSH FACTOR - WAR - 52IMPACTS in Africa- Shoratge of workers (bad for economy) (-)
- Families get separated (-) - 53IMPACTS in Spain- CONFLICT (-)
- Increased BIRTH RATE (young migrant) (-)
- More unskilled workers (+)
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