Learning Activity: FAMILY TREES

INDIVIDUAL
 Create two family trees based on interviews with each of your

parents
 If you are a family of migrants, determine if your family moved

from the provinces to the big cities or vice versa

- when the family moved
- why they left the provinces for the cities
GROUP
 Compare your findings to those of your classmates and see if there

is a pattern of demographic changes

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Learning Activity: FAMILY TREES

GROUP ACTIVITY:
 Compare your findings to those of your classmates and see if there

is a pattern of demographic changes

 are group members of your family an economic asset or burden to the
family
 did you feel the neo-Malthusian argument, why or why not
 how can technology and interventions in development offset the
pressures of population growth
 under what circumstance is rapid population growth beneficial to
societies
GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHY
Learning Outcomes :

 Discuss the relationship between population and economic welfare

 Identify the effects of population aging and overpopulation
 Differentiate between contrasting positions over reproductive health
DEMOGRAPHY

- is ultimately about people

- 'no interdisciplinary account of globalization is
complete without an accounting of people'
- the study of statistics such as births, deaths,
income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate
the changing structure of human populations
Having or not having children is mainly driven by
economics.

Will the child be an economic asset or a

burden to the family ?
 Rural/Urban differing views of family life

 Rural families view multiple children and large kinship networks as

critical economic investments. The more children the better for crop
cultivation.
 Urban families limit their children because parents are committed to
their respective professions. They save for retirement, health care and
future education of their children.
 Less developed regions of the world that rely on agriculture tend to
maintain high levels of population growth.
 Urban populations have grown because of significant
migration to the cities by people seeking work in the “more
modern” sectors of society
 Immigrants move to first world countries to offset the

debilitating effects of aging population. They are perceive as

threats to the job market because they compete against its
citizens since they are willing to receive lower wages.
 Governments are pressured to institute stricter immigration

policies.
 “PERILS” OF OVERPOPULATION

 In his article An Essay on the Principle of Population, British

clergy Thomas Malthus warned that population growth will
inevitably exhaust world food supply by the middle of 19 th
century.
 American biologist Paul R. Erhlich and his wife Anne, wrote

The Population Bomb which argued that overpopulation in the

1970s and the 1980s will bring about global environmental
disasters that would, in turn, lead to food shortage and mass
starvation.
 The need for the promotion of global population control to
reduce the growth to zero rate
 Chemical castration
 Taxing an additional child and child-related products
 Paying off man who will agree to be sterilized after two

children
 Institution –building such as a Department for Population and

Environment
 Neo-Malthusian views the promotion of reproductive health
program is crucial to economic development
 Access to reproductive technologies

Oral pills
Condoms
Abortion
Vasectomy
Ligation
 Anti - Neo-Malthusian theory accused governments of using
population control as a substitute for social justice such as land
distribution, employment creation, provision for mass education
and health care and emancipation
 Population growth has spurred technological and institutional

innovation and increased the supply of human ingenuity

(advances in agricultural production to avoid famine)
 Scholars suggest that government must also include inclusive

economic growth
 IT'S THE ECONOMY, NOT THE BABIES

 Neo-Malthusianism - is the advocacy of population control

control programs to ensure resources for current and future
populations

 Besty Hartmann disagrees with the advocates of Neo-

Malthusian theory and accuses governments of using
population control as a “substitute for social justice and much-
needed reforms”
 WOMEN AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

 Women are the subjects of population measures

 Women must have control over whether they will have

children or not
 Correlation between fertility, family and fortune has

motivated countries to introduce or strengthen their

reproductive health laws, including abortion.
 THE FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE

 Feminist are against any form of population control

 This does not empower women.

 Overpopulation is not the culprit of poverty and

ecological degradation which are rooted from unequal

distribution of wealth, the lack of public safety nets
such as universal health care, education, and gender
equality
 POPULATION GROWTH & FOOD SECURITY

 7.4 billion (present)

 9.5 billion by 2050

 11.2 billion by 2100. The

median age is 30.1 (male, 29.4

years; female, 30.9 years)
 95% growth will happen in the

developing countries
 Population growth declines in

developed countries (Japan,

Singapore)
•The current population of the
Philippines is 107,699,999 as of
Monday, April 1, 2019, based on
the latest United Nations
estimates.
•The Philippines population is
equivalent to 1.4% of the 
total world population.
•The Philippines ranks
number 13 in the list of 
countries (and dependencies) by p
opulation
.
•44.4 % of the population
is urban (48,051,350 people in
2019)
•The median age in the
 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
 Food production must increase
 Increase of investment in agriculture
 Craft long term policies aimed at fighting poverty
 Invest in research and development
 Comprehensive social service program which include food

assistance
 Food importation is necessary
 Global trading system must be fair and competitive and that

contributes to a dependable market for food

 CONCLUSION
 Demography is a complex discipline that

requires the integration of various social

scientific data.
 Demographic changes have impacts on

environment, politics, economics, and others.

 No interdisciplinary account of globalization

is complete without an accounting of people.