Human Geo 10/17 - Population & Settlement (pt. 2)

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- More people than ever! ◦ Over 7.6 billion people on the planet right now.
◦  90% of this population growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, South and Easy Asia, and Latin America. 
- Life expectancy: the avg. # of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year. 
◦ Higher Monaco (86.53 Men, 93.58 Women)
◦ #43 U.S.: (77.32 Men, 81.97 Women)
◦ Low (?): 48.64 Men, 51.03 Women
- Crude birth rate: number of births per 1000 of the population.
- Crude death rate: number of deaths per 1000 of the population.
- Rate of natural increase (RNI):
◦ Produced by subtracting death rate from birth rate
◦ This gives us the annual natural growth rate in percentage form - for a country or region
- Net migration rate: the difference between the number of people entering & leaving per year.
◦ An excess of persons entering the country is net immigration (written as pos.)
◦ Net emigration: excess of persons leaving the country (written as neg.)
: Reasons people migrate:
- Push forces
◦  civil war
◦  environmental degradation
◦  unemployment & underemployment 
◦  religious pr ethnic persecution
- Pull forces
◦  better economic oppurtuinity
◦  better health services 
◦  religious freedom
◦  political freedom

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