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Human population growth
Topic 8
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MEDC and LEDC
MEDCMore economically developed country
LEDCLess economically developed country
1. Most countries in Europe and North
America, Israel, and Japan
2. Industrialized nations with high
GDPs
3. Population is relatively rich
4. Individuals are unlikely to starve
through poverty
5. Relatively high level of resource
use per capita (per person)
6. Relatively low pop. Growth rates
largely due to low CBR but rising
CDRs
7. Have very high carbon and
ecological footprint
1. Most countries in sub-Saharan
Africa. Large areas of Asia and
South America
2. Less industrialized or have hardly
any industry at all
3. May have raw materials (natural
capital) but this tends to be
exported and processed in MEDCs
4. Population has a lower GDP and
higher poverty rates
5. More people are poor with low
standards of living
6. High pop. Growth rates largely due
to rapidly falling CDRs
7. Have lower carbon and ecological
footprint
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Population growth
• Population size, for any species, is
affected by two inputs and two outputs,
which are influenced by a number of
different factors.
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Calculating Population ChangeBirths, deaths, and net migrations
determine the numbers of individuals in a
population
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LEDCs and MEDCs
• Human Development Index (HDI) is a
measure of “well being” of a country.
• It combines measures of both health (life
expectancy), wealth (gross domestic
product (GDP) per capita, and education
into one value
• It is used to rank countries
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Time
# of ind
Lag Phase
Exponential
Growth phase
Transitional phase
(linear growth phase)
Plateau phase
(stationary growth)
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Time
# of ind
Exponential
Growth phase
Population increases
exponentially, a period of
no constraints on growth.
“Unlimited” resources and no
accumulation of waste products.
High natality and low mortality.
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Time
# of ind
Transitional phase
(linear growth phase)
Natality decreases, but exceeds
rising mortality, population still
growing but slowing down.
Developing shortage of resources,
waste products accumulating.
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Time
# of ind
Plateau phase
(stationary growth)
Natality and mortality rates are
equal, so population size is
maintained constant.
Nutrient supply and waste products
do not support any growth in
numbers.
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According to the United Nations Population
Fund global population reached 7 billion on
Monday, October 31st, 2011
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What is the world population now?
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
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Recent demographic change
• Total population and the rate of population growth are much higher in
LEDC’s compared to MEDC’s
• In 1960’s population growth in LEDC’s peaked at 2.4% a year
• By the mid 1990’s the rate of global population was down to 1.8%
• By 2011 it was 1.2%
• Africa is an exception growth is still at 2.5%
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India and China make up 37% of the world’s population
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How to determine crude birth
rates
• Determined by taking the number of live
births in one year in a country, dividing it
by the country’s population and
multiplying the number by 1000
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Birth rates
• The number of births per year divided by the total population.
b = total births/total population
*the crude birth rate is usually stated as the number of births per 1000 individuals.
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Birth rates, an example
• If the total population of mice in a forest is 1,000,000 and 5,000 mice were born in a one year time period the birthrate would be
5,000/1,000,000 = 0.005
0.005 X 100 = 0.5%
• The crude birth rate is what is usually reported which would be
0.005 X 10005 out of 1000 Confusing I know!
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How to determine crude death
rates
• Determined by taking the number of
deaths in a country in one year, and
dividing it by the country’s population
and multiplying the number by 1000
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Death rates
• The number of deaths per year divided by the
total population.
d = total deaths/total population
• The crude death rate is usually stated as the
number of deaths per 1000 individuals
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Death rates, an example
• So for the same population of mice in a forest (1,000,000) there were a total of 2,500 deaths…so
2,500/1,000,000 = 0.0025 or 0.25%
• The crude death rate reported would be 2.5 out of 1000 (2.5/1000)
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• If the birth rate of a country is 15 per thousand, this means
on average for every thousand people in this country 15
will be born.
• If the death rate is 10 per 1000, this means that 10 will die
for every 1000
• Rate of natural change – the difference between the birth
rate and death rate
• In this case it would be 5 per 1000
• Natural change can be positive (natural increase) or
negative (natural decrease)
• If birth rate is lower than the death rate then it is a natural
decrease
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Population Doubling Time
• Doubling Time of a population is the number of years
it would take a population to double its size at its
current growth rate.
• Knowing the doubling times of populations is useful in
making international comparisons or variations within
countries.
• Population doubling makes people consider the
impact of population growth on resources and the
environment in general.
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Population Doubling Time
Calculation doubling times
• Doubling time is determined by dividing 70 by the growth
rate.
• The number 70 comes from the natural log of 2, which is 70
• Example:
A country in 2010 with a population of 33 million had a
population growth rate of 0.9%
Population doubling time:
70/0.9 = 77.7 years
So, in 2087 if growth rate maintained, the country will have
doubled it pop. From 33 million to 66 million
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Pop. Declining in
Ger. and Italy
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• Total Fertility Rate-is the average
number of children each woman has
over her life time
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• Differences between CBR and fertility
rate
• Fertility rate - is the number of births per
thousand women of childbearing age
• CBR – is the number of births per
thousand of total population.
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Give out handouts
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Demographic Transition
Model
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Demographic transition model
• This model describes the pattern of
decline in mortality and fertility of a
country as a result of economic and
social development.
• It is described as a five-stage population
model.
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The Classic Stages of
Demographic Transition
Time
Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4
Natural
increase
Birth rate
Death rate
Note: Natural increase is produced from the excess of births over deaths.
Lesson Plan: The Demographic Transition, Activity One
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• Demographic transition- broad generalization about
population growth since the middle of the 18th century
• No country as a whole retains the characteristics of stage 1.
This only applies to the most remote societies on Earth.
• All MEDC’s are stage 4 or 5
• The poorest of LEDC’s are in stage 2 (Niger, Bolivia)
• Most LEDC’s with advanced social and economics are in stage
3. (Brazil, China, India)
• NICs (Newly industrialized countries) such as south Korea and
Taiwan are in stage 4
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Stage 1
The high stationary stage
• Pre-industrial society
• High birth rate due to no birth control.
• High infant mortality rates.
• Cultural factors and agricultural society encourage
large families.
• High death rates due to disease, famine, poor
hygiene, and little medicine.
• Fluctuating population growth, overall no growth.
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Stage 1
Aerial photo of
uncontacted
tribe in Brazil.
Photo courtesy
of the
Government of
Brazil.
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Aerial photo of
uncontacted
tribe in Brazil.
Photo courtesy
of the
Government of
Brazil.
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Stage 2
The early expanding stage
• LEDC
• Death rate drops as sanitation and food improve.
• Disease is reduced so lifespan increases.
• High population under the age of 15
• Birth rate is still high so population expands rapidly
and child mortality falls due to improved medicine.
• High growth rate.
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Stage 2
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Stage 3
The late expanding stage
• Wealthier LEDC
• As a country becomes more developed, birth rates
will also fall due to access to contraception,
improved healthcare, education, emancipation of
women.
• Increased mechanization reduces need for
workers.
• Desire for material goods increases.
• Infant death rates decrease.
• Smaller families.
• Growth begins to level off.
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Stage 3
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Stage 4
The low stationary stage
• MEDC
• Low birth and death rates.
• Industrialized countries.
• Stable population sizes.
• Life expectancy increases
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Stage 3Stage 4
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Stage 5
The natural decrease stage
• MEDC
• Population may not be replaced as fertility
is low.
• Problems of aging workforce put pressure
on economy.
• Birth rate may have fallen below death rate
resulting in natural decrease
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Stage 5
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Age/sex pyramids
• Age/sex pyramids are a graphic
representation of the age and gender
structure of a population.
• The pyramids are a snapshot in time but
can give a great deal of information
about the demographics of the
population.
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How to construct a pyramid
• Calculate the percentage of the population that falls into each age category, and separate by gender.
• Take the number of individuals that fall into the age/sex category, divide by the total population and multiply by 100.
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Analyze and
interpret the
pyramid
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Analyze
• There is a wide base
• Decrease in width as
age increases
Interpret
• extremely high fertility rates.
• indicates relatively high
mortality rates
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• The wide base reflects
extremely high fertility
rates.
• Birth rates are 48 per
1000
• Decrease in width
indicates relatively high
mortality rates
• Death rate 12 per 1000
• Infant mortality rate very
high 88 per 1000
• Life expectancy is 55
• 49% of pop. Under the
age of 15
• Stage 2
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Analyze Interpret
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• Lower fertility rates by
narrow band compared to
the middle age band
• 13 per 1000 births
• Decline in mortality by
each narrowing band
• Greater life expectancy
• Life expectancy is 80
• 9 per 1000 death
• Stage 4
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What pyramids say about the population
Expanding pyramids
• This population is very bottom heavy.
• The birth rates are high.
• Most of the population is young, causing competition for jobs and resources.
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Still expanding but the birth rate is dropping and growth rate is slowing.
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Chimney shapes indicate that birth and
death rates are both low, population
growth is close to zero.
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Contracting pyramid indicates a declining growth rate.
This can cause a financial burden on the working age
individuals to support an aging population.
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Environmental FactorsEnvironmental factors may be
categorized according to how much
population density influences their effect
on population growth:
Density independent factors have a
controlling effect on population size and
growth, regardless of the population
density.
Density dependent factors have an
increasing effect on population growth as
the density of the population increases.
Severe fires can result in high mortality
Humans often live at high density
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Density Dependent FactorsDensity dependent factors exert a greater
effect on population growth at higher
population densities.
At high densities, individuals:
Compete more for resources.
Are more easily located by predators and parasites.
Are more vulnerable to infection and disease.
Density dependent factors are biotic factors
such as food supply, disease, parasite
infestation, competition, and predation.
Parasites can spread rapidly
through dense populations
Competition increases
in crowded populations
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Density Independent
FactorsThe effect of density independent factors
on a population’s growth is not dependent
on that population’s density:
•Physical (abiotic) factors
•Temperature
•Precipitation
•Humidity
•Acidity
•Salinity
•Catastrophic events
•Floods and tsunamis
•Fire
•Drought
•Earthquakes and Eruptions
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When is a country overpopulated?
• The optimum pop. Is when pop. Produces
highest economic return per capita, using all
available resources.
• Some countries have higher optimum pop.
Densities than others
• Netherland has high pop. Densities but can
support this w/ high living standards
• Brazil in the north w/ 2 people for km2 is
overpopulated as resources are much scarcer.
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When is a country overpopulated?
• richer countries import goods and services
from elsewhere.
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Why do people have large families?
• High infant and childhood mortality rate
• According to UNICEF one child dies every 3
seconds (26,500 per day) due to malnutrition and
disease. It is an insurance to have more than you
may need so that some reach adulthood.
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Why do people have large families?
• Security in old age
• The tradition in the family is that children will care
for their parents. The more children the more
secure the parents and less burden for each
child. If no social welfare network, children need
to take care of parents
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Why do people have large families?
• Children are economic asset
• Agriculture society they work on the land asap.
More kids can help take care of younger ones.
• In MEDCs children depend on their parents and
take longer to contribute to society.
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Why do people have large families?
• Status of women
• Traditional position of women they are
subordinate to men.
• In many countries deprived of many rights:
• Owning property
• Education
• Career
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Why do people have large families?
• Status of women
• They do most agricultural work and are
considered worthy only for making children and
their social status depends on the number of
children they produce (especially boys)
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Ways to reduce family size
• Provide education
• Basic literacy for children and adults
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Ways to reduce family size
• Provide education
• Basic literacy for children and adults
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Ways to reduce family size
• Improve health care
• By preventing the spread of diseases through
simple measures of hygiene (boiling water), by
improving nutrition, and providing medicine and
vaccines
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Ways to reduce family size
• contraceptives
• Education on family planning and making
contraceptives available
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Ways to reduce family size
• Enhance Income
• Small loans given to families to buy seeds or
equipment necessary to start a small family
business.
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Ways to reduce family size
• Biggest factor in reducing population….
Improved status of women
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Ways to reduce family size
• Improved status of women
• Fertility rates are high where women status is low
• Less than 20% world’s countries will account for
nearly all of the world population growth
• Those countries are least developed and girls are
most likely less to attend school
• Child marriage is common
• Women lack basic rights
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Human Population growth and
resources
• More people require more resources
• More people produce more waste
• People usually want to improve their standard
of living
• So the more people there are, the greater the
impact they have
• If we can control pop. Increase and control
resource demand, levels of sustainability should
increase
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Population growth and food
shortages
Use 2 pages of your notebooks one side for
Malthusian theory and the other for Boserup’s
theory.
• What are each?
• What are the limitations of each?
• What are the applications of each?
• Include graphs
• Pages 357-359
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Carrying Capacity
• The largest number of individuals in a
population that the resources in the
environment can support for an
extended period of time
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Solid Domestic Waste
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What is SDW?
• Solid domestic waste
• It is only 5% of total waste, (Agriculture
and industry make up the other 95%)
however it is waste we can control.
• People in LEDCs tend to produce less
SDW than those in MEDCs
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Types of solid waste
• Biodegradable: food
• Recyclable: Paper, glass, metals, some
plastic, clothes, batteries
• Electrical waste: TVs, computers,
phones
• Hazardous: paints, chemicals, light
bulbs
• Toxic: pesticides, herbicides
• Medical: needles
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The linear Economy• Most goods are produced in a linear model
Dump: when done we
dump them
Take: find raw materials
or natural capital
Make: Use energy to
produce goods
Our global economy has been built on this
unsustainable premise
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The Circular Economy
A model that is sustainable
• Restorative of environment
• Use of renewable energy
• Eliminate/reduce toxic waste
• Eradicate waste through careful design
To do this the model relies on manufacturers and
producers retaining ownership of their products and
being responsible for recycling when consumer is done.
They take back products when they are no longer
needed and disassembled or refurbished and then
returned back to the market.
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Strategies to minimize waste• Reduce
• Have things last longer
• Items with less packaging
• Buy recycled made products
• Reuse
• Compost food waste
• Use old clothes for cleaning
• Rent DVD or buy downloadable copies
• Read E - books
• Recycle
• Collect and separate waste material
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• The amount of domestic waste has
increased with population rise
• MEDC produce far more waste than
LEDC because of higher spending
power
• In India and China, very little food is
wasted, It is consumed entirely by
humans or animals
• In MEDCs up to 50% of waste is food
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Strategies for waste disposal:
Landfills
• Critical issue in many parts of the world
• Landfills are good but space is running
out
• Strategies are dependent on the
composition of rubbish
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Landfill
• A disposal site where solid waste is
buried between layers of dirt in such a
way to reduce contamination of
surrounding land.
• Lined with layers of absorbent material
and sheets of plastic to keep pollutants
from leaking into the soil and water
• When used it can be reused as a park
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Advantages Disadvantages
• Relatively cheap
• Low technology that any country can
use
• Landfill occurs in specific locations that
can be carefully chosen and monitored
• Waste can be processed to remove
recyclable material
• Methane can be captured and used
• Limit to # of appropriate available sites
in many regions
• As sites become scarce the cost of
land increases
• Public opposition to opening new
landfill sites and expanding existing
ones because of environmental
concerns
• Poorly managed sites can pollute
water, soil and air
• Poorly managed sites attract animals
and insects that can spread disease
• Recognized as unsustainable way of
waste disposal
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Incineration
• Burning waste material
• Require a limited land area reducing
volume of refuse greatly
• Incinerators are expensive to build and
operate
• Require a high input of energy
• Ash disposal needs a landfill
• Toxins are emitted (sulfur dioxide,
nitrogen dioxide, carbon dioxide)
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Composting
• Organic material that has been
decomposed and recycled as fertilizer
because of its high nutrient value
• Many countries encourage households
to compost as much as possible in their
own gardens
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Recycling
• Regarded as a key process in providing
a livable environment for the future
• Cost is significant
• Some waste can not be recycled and
the separation can be difficult
• LEDC have very few opportunities for
recycling
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Anaerobic Digestion• Biodegradable material is broken by
microorganisms in the absence of O2
• The methane produced can be used as
fuel and the waste later used as fertilizer
or soil conditioner
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