In What Ways Do Demographic Characteristics Affect Communities in Canada?
Demographic characteristics play a major role, affecting communities in Canada. Three main demographic characteristics that affect a country are population growth rate, population density, and the dependency load of a country. These characteristics can have a beneficial impact, as well as a negative impact, on communities in Canada.
Have you ever wondered why some country's population is not as large as others, or why some are increasing while others are decreasing? The population growth rate definitely affects communities in an area. It is a measurement that combines both natural increase rate and net migration rate to calculate the total population increase of
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Regions with mild temperature tend to have high population density, while regions with severe weather conditions tend to have a low population density.
Availability of resources: Regions with an abundant supply of natural resources such as oil, raw metal, and wood tend to have a high population density because places with more resources often have a better standard of living. (Spatial Significance: The availability of resources is a major factor in where people live. People tend to live near places rich in resources to survive. Without much resources, the life expectancy will be lower than places with much resources).
Vegetation: Places with plentiful variety of flora and fauna will have a higher population density than places with less variety and quantity. The quantity and quality of food and shelter, as well as the scenery, will have an impact on people’s choice when choosing to travel. (Interrelationships: There is an environmental impact as farmers want to have the best land for farming. They need to find areas with good soil and might possibly have to cut down trees to make room for the
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Adults that work support the country and people who are not working. The dependency load is the people who are not working; ages 0 to 14 and over the age of 65. The dependency ratio compares the number of people not working to the number of people working. The more working people a country has, the greater the economical growth. With more money being given to the government, the effect is that the region could have better technology, transportation, healthcare, and food quality as the government has the money to buy, build, and repair. In Canada, because of our decrease in population, (figure 1.4) there future dependency load will be greater than our workforce causing economical problems. (Patterns and Trends: Although Canada’s population is decreasing over time, this could change as another “baby boom” could happen.) Since we have less people working, it will eventually cause problems such as our economy will go down. To solve a problem like this, the government could raise the taxes to keep the money going in, or increase the population by
Detailed analysis of the past profile of population growth is needed to answer this question. However, because of the rapid rate of population growth, ministry needs to change policies and set new plans to address housing, transportation and environmental problems.
There are two main componetns to population change, in this case population growth. These are natural increase and migration.
Societal Change contributes to an ever changing society in Canada. Two distinct adaptations that contribute to this developing society include Immigration and Equality. Immigration was almost non-existent in 1939, with Canada being a largely white settler dominion. As the years progressed, Immigration began to increase until Canada moved to become a multicultural, multiracial society at its current stage in 2017. By 2039, I would expect Canada to be even more multicultural, taking into account the Syrian Refugee crisis, many more refugees will be coming to Canada, thus influencing this idea of more racially diverse community. Equality between sexes was also something that contributed to this changing society in Canada. Women moved from being
We demand a change! Our government focuses on one group of people. This concept is not only here in Upper Canada, but also in Lower Canada. The only focus is on white British wealthy men. So many people are left out. Why even, have people vote if they all think the same? What about the First Nations Peoples who you promised the right to a homeland after all their hard work defending us. Do only white wealthy men count? Shouldn’t the farmers who have been here for generations get inpu Also, why are we being ruled by the British we are their second hand? Don’t we deserve to be our own country? This is unfair and will not be tolerated by us, the French, the wives and mothers and the First Nations. Also, the only opportunity to vote is for the fourth in command.
There are over ten major factors affecting population density. For the physical factors, low land which is flat (e.g. Ganges Valley) is densely populated while high land with rugged relief and high plateau is sparsely populated (e.g. Himalayas). Areas rich in resources (e.g. minerals, oil, wood, fishing etc.) tend to tend to have higher population density (e.g. Western
The Global human population increases growth amounts to around 75 million annually, or 1.1% per year. The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to 7 billion in 2012. It is expected to keep growing, and estimates have put the total population at 8.4 billion by mid-2030, and 9.6 billion by mid-2050. Many nations with rapid population growth have low standards of living, whereas many nations with low rates of population growth have high standards of living.
When a country's popultion is high, it would take a lot to get back down because as people get to their twenty's they have kids adding to the population. People are living longer all around the world, so the population keeps growing as people keep living longer and longer.
Climate, the weather conditions in an area, had a huge impact on how the world developed. People migrated to the areas where they could hunt, grow crops, and
Population demographics help scientists predict how populations will change over time and affect other organisms (Belk, Borden-Maier, 2010). A “population size” gives the numbers of organisms in a population, and a “population density” reveals the numbers of organisms per area of land in an ecosystem. The rate at which population grows and shrinks is measured, however, in trees are tagged also Americans have a census. Both are methods to quantify also study a population. Births, deaths,
For example, urbanization leads to dense populations. Densely overpopulated populations, while socially stimulating have higher chances of spreading infectious diseases. This is because the vector can easily spread when hosts are in close proximity. Think about the Ebola outbreak, a virus that used to be controlled when it occurred in small villages was able to spread fast when it reached dense populations . How does these countries/communities differ in population density? In terms of altitude levels, reports have suggested that Ae. Aegypti is rarely present in areas with elevations between of 1,700–2,100 m (Martin Cetron). Suggesting that altitude levels influences transmission and mosquito survival. Mosquito’s vectors require suitable habitants (temperature, precipitation, vegetation and human population density) in order for the vector to be present. Such habitant differs among countries and affects the mosquito
When populations being to rise, that rise is mostly seen in larger urban areas or in some cases, more rural communities. Often times, or even in the future, more rural areas are beginning to grow into smaller urban communities. When more people begin to live in more densely populated areas, the use of resources as well as chances of negative effects from disaster also rise. A big thing that government, religious, and even cultural institutions can do to aid growing populations is through education. This comes in the way of resource education as well as health and welfare. This can take some of the strain off government
Two-thirds of the world’s population is distributed in four regions- East Asia, South Asia, Europe and Southeast Asia. The two basic properties when understanding how population is distributed are concentration and density. The density of a place refers to the amount of people in the area over the land size of that area. In the same aspect, concentration is the amount of people in a certain region and how they are concentrated in that region. There are many pros (advantages) and cons (disadvantages) related to population distribution.
Millions of people move to Canadian cities every year. Many people assume that Canada has freezing cold winters. In reality, the temperature is usually above zero in most of Canada. The weather does get cold, but most Canadian residents are able to bear the winters with a coat and gloves. The summers can be humid, but the weather is not boiling hot in the summer. Canada has an affordable universal health care system. Canada also has a very low crime rate. Canadian cities are clean, and most of the roads are in great condition. If you are going to Ontario, you should consider purchasing a home in Toronto.
Immigration: Many people prefer to move to more developed countries where they would have better medical treatments, education, employment and security. This movement affects the density of the population in the countries making them overcrowded. And because there are more people than normal, more food, clothing, homes, and other necessities are demanded, thereby leading to shortage of resources. Even though immigration does not necessarily affect the population of the locals of these areas, it makes them overly
Regardless of the way that there are various research studies conducted to find out the relationship between population and economic growth,there is no concordance whether population growth is advantageous or hindrance to economic growth. On one hand, the rising population leads to a rise in living standards of the people which in turn leads to market expansion as more people gets into the market for business. As a result, there is competition in the market. This implies the positive relationship between population and economic growth. On the contrary, their