GLOBAL

DEMOGRAPHY
Subtitle
 DEMOGRAPHY
 It is the statistical study of human
population.
 examines the size, structure and
movements of populations over space
and time.
DEMOGRAPH
Y STUDIES
THE
FOLLOWING:
1.POPULATION SIZE- The number of people
in a country.

2. POPULATION GROWTH- Changes in the

number of people in a given geographic area
over time.
3. POPULATION PROCESSES- Fertility, mortality and
migration.

4. FACTORS RELATED TO POPULATION

PROCESSES- disease and socio-economic characteristics
related to mortality, family formation, labor force
participation, government policies related to fertility.
5. POPULATION DISTRIBUTION- geographic distribution
such as among states or between rural and urban areas.

6. POPULATION STRUCTURE- Age and sex structure.

7. POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS- education, income,

labor, marital status, race and ethnic groups.
  Having a child is a symbol of
successful union.
 It ensures that the family will have a
successor generation that will continue
its name.
QUESTION

WILL THE CHILD BE AN

ECONOMIC ASSET OR
BURDEN TO THE FAMILY?
 RURAL COMMUNITIES
This type of community
often welcome an extra
hand to help in crop,
cultivation particularly
during the planting and
harvesting season.
URBAN COMMUNITIES
 The poorer districts of urban
centers also tend to have
families with more children
because the success of their
small family business depends
on how many of their
members can be hawking their
wares on the street.
  Urbanized, educated and
professional families with two
incomes, however desire just
one or two progenies.
 urban
 Urban populations have grown, but not
necessarily because of having a more children
in every families.
 It is rather the combination of the natural
outcome of significant migration to the cities by
people who seek to have work or jobs.
 THE PERILS OF
OVERPOPULATIO
N
 THE PERILS OF
OVERPOPULATION
 Development planners see urbanization and
industrialization as indicators of a developing
society, but disagree on the role of population
growth or decline in the modernization.
 THOMAS MALTHUS
 British scholar who
brings back the idea
that “population
growth will inevitably
exhaust world food
supply”.
“AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION”
1978
 PAUL R. EHRLICH
(American biologist)
 It will bring global
environmental
disasters that would
lead to food shortage
and mass starvation.

“THE POPULATION BOMB”

1960
 RECOMMENDATIONS TO
AVOID MASS STARVATION:
 Bizzare or Chemical Castration
 Policy Oriented- taxing an additional child
and luxury taxes in child related products.
Monetary Incentives- paying of men who
would agree to be sterilized after two children.
 RECOMMENDATIONS TO
AVOID MASS STARVATION:
 By limiting the population, vital resources
could be used for economic progress and not
be diverted and wasted to feeding more
mouths.
 This argument became the basis for
government “population control programs”.
 VASECTOMY
 Vasectomy is a form of male
birth control that cuts the
supply of sperm to your
semen. 
 It's done by cutting and sealing
the tubes that carry sperm.
 TUBAL LIGATION
Tubal ligation is surgery
to close a woman's
fallopian tubes.
 (It is sometimes called
"tying the tubes.") 
 MOST
POPULATED
COUNTRIES
(Population Number)
1,439,323,776
(Population Number)
1, 380,004,385
GLOBAL MIGRATION
MIGRATION –THE ACT OR INSTANCES OF MIGRATING
-denotes the act of moving from one place to another -
within a country or across borders, for people or birds, and
usually refers not to a single individual or family but a a
larger demographic.
 GLOBAL MIGRATION
The nuances of the movement of
people around the world can be seen
through the categories of migrants –
“VAGABONDS and “TOURISTS”.
 VAGABONDS
are on the move “because they have to
be” – they are not faring well in their
home countries and are forced to move
in the hope that their circumstances will
improve.
 Tourists
are on the move because they want to
be and because they can afford it.
a person who is traveling or visiting a
place for pleasure
 Refugees
 Refugees are vagabonds
forced to flee their home
countries due to safety
concerns.
 ASYLUM SEEKERS

Asylum seekers are refugees

who seek to remain in the
country to which they flee.
 LABOR MIGRATON IS DRIVEN BY:

 “PUSH’’ FACTORS (Lack of employment

opportunities in home countries.

“pull’’ factors (Work available elsewhere)

 MIGRATION IS TRADITIONALLY
GOVERNED EITHER BY:

 “PUSH” factors such as political persecution, economic depression,

war, and famine in the home country or

 “PULL” factors such as favorable immigration policy, a labor

shortage, and a similarity of language and culture in the country of
destination.