Thursday, October 9, 2014

Thursday October 9

Warm-Up #8: Population Histograms

Go to the CIA Factbook and look up the three (3) countries that you researched for the UN Population Activity that we completed yesterday.
Click on the "People and Society" tab.
Look at the population distribution data table and create a population histogram for each of your countries.

  1. Calculate the doubling time for each country
  2. Calculate the dependency ratio for each country.
  3. Define the term "zero population growth".
  4. Which histogram most closely resembles zero population growth?
  5. What does it mean to have an "old" or "young" population?
  6. How does migration affect a population pyramid?
  7. How can the age-sex structure of a population help plan for the needs of that population?

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