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MYP 5: Demography and Population Studies
MYP 5: Demography and Population Studies
What is demography?
How does demography connect the dots? – Nearly everything is connected to
demography – The relationship of population to resources – The relationship of
population to political and social dynamics
Concerns of demography
Population size
Population growth or decline
Population processes/components
Population distribution
Population structure
Population characteristics
Demographic equation
Population size can change only through the processes of fertility, mortality,
and migration
Two ways of entering a population – Being born or moving into it
Two ways of leaving a population – Dying or moving out of it
Population can only change by way of a limited, countable number of
events
Population studies
Demographic Examples
1. Social class (sociological) → Death rate
2. Attitude about motherhood (social psychology) → Number of children
3. Annual rainfall (geographical) → Population density
4. Economic opportunity (economic) → Migration
Also
Demography data skewed in India and China and in some south east Asian
Countries
Why does China have high SRBs? – Pre-natal sex identification via sonar
technology, followed by female-specific abortion
What will be the result of the high SRBs? – Between 1983 and 2010 over 41
million extra boys were born than girls.
Less girls in comparison of boys.
Demographic Model
In stage 1 the two rates are balanced. In stage 2 they diverge , as the death rate
falls relative to the birth rate. In stage 3 they converge again, as the birth rate
falls relative to the death rate. Finally in stage 4 the death and birth rates are
balanced again but at a much lower level.