Notes on pages 18-21 in the book
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
3:12 PM
There are 14,000 births per hour. Many poor countries have a big population and many people wonder if they can still achieve economic and social development for stability of their country. People also wonder if richer countries should help. Migration is increasingly becoming the cause of population change. This international migration is because these people want a better life in richer countries. Developing countries such as Africa, Latin America, and Asia are experiencing the most rapid changes in urbanization.
• Rate of Natural Increase (RNI)-depicts the annual growth rate for a country or region as a percentage. You can find it by subtracting the # of deaths in a year from the births. ~Gains or losses through migration are not considered in this.~
• Crude Birthrate or the Crude Death Rate-Births or deaths by the total population, thereby making a figure per 1,000 of the population.
• Total Fertility Rate TFR- a synthetic hypothetical number that measures the fertility of a statistically fictitious, yet average group of women moving through their child-bearing years. If women marry early and have many children over a long period of time, the TFR will be high.
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