For the week of September 21, 2015 – Questions related to Unit II, Population and
Migration.
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Question #1: Indicate below whether the following countries are dealing with an over population or under
population problem?
Niger
Japan
South Sudan
Germany Chad
Canada
Watch the following video clip from the NY Times related to the Population Bomb phenomena of the 1960s.
Answer the following question:
In the 1960s, fears of overpopulation sparked campaigns for population control. But whatever became of the
population bomb? Should we be more or less concerned about this issue today? Basically, is over or under
population more of a problem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8XOF3SOu8I (13:07)
Question #2: What are demographers discussing when they represent or show the TFR of a country?
*Are the following countries TFR above or below what demographers call the “replacement rate (2.1)?”
* Use the data provided by the Population Reference Bureau in their 2015 Data Sheet (2014 data).
http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2015/2015-world-population-data-sheet.aspx
You should be able to identify patterns and trends when analyzing this data.
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Bosnia-Herzogovina
Democratic Republic Congo
South Sudan
Chad
Greece
Somalia
Niger
South Korea
Burundi
Portugal
Taiwan
Singapore
Question #3: What is the difference between arithmetic, physiologic and agricultural density?
Match the real world examples below with the correct density. (2013 data)(2011 for agricultural density)
Arithmetic
Physiologic
Afghanistan
4
Oman
Japan
47
Italy
Canada
349
Brazil
Agricultural
318
11780
748
United States
360
China
1116
Nigeria
1602
Question #4: When one takes the difference between Crude Birth rate and Crude Death rate one will
get?
(Rate Natural Increase)
What are some implications of high RNIs vs. low RNIs?
Question #5:
The Population Reference Bureau projects that the world population will reach 9.8 BILLION people by
2050, a 2.5 billion increase from the current 7.3 billion currently inhabiting our planet in 2015.
What are some Human Geographic implications of this projection?