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World Population Data Sheet At A Glance

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Activity 1: The World Population Data Sheet at a Glance
A. Find answers to the following questions using the current World Population Data Sheet. Use your blank world maps to locate, shade, and label the countries identified in the questions that follow.
What is the current population of the world?
The current population is 7.3 billion. 2. Rank, in descending order, the 10 countries with the largest population.
China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, Mexico.
B. Rates are often used, instead of absolute numbers, to determine how frequently a population or demographic event is occurring—rates show how common an event is. Rates also make it possible to compare countries that vary greatly in …show more content…

Which country has the highest CDR? Which country has the lowest?
Lesotho has the highest and the lowest is Qatar.
D. The infant mortality rate measures the number of deaths each year to infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births.
Which country has the highest infant mortality rate and what is that rate? Which country has the lowest and what is that rate
The Central African Republic has the highest(109) and the lowest is Iceland(1.7).
The total fertility rate (TFR) is the average number of children a woman would have if she maintained today's level of childbearing throughout her reproductive years.
2. Which countries share the highest TFR and what is it? Which countries share the lowest TFR. What is it?
The highest TFR is Niger(7.6) and the lowest are Taiwan, South Korea, Portugal, and Bosnia-Herzegovina(1.2).

E. The age and sex structure of a population refers to the number or proportion of males and females who are in each age category. Age-sex structure tells us about a population's past trends in fertility, mortality, and migration. It also provides information about the population's potential for future growth. The greater the proportion of people in the younger-adult age groups, the greater the potential for more births and population …show more content…

Which African country has the highest proportion of people living in urban areas? In Asia? In Latin America? In Europe? In Oceania?
Reunion in Africa, Bahrain, Qatar, and Singapore in Asia, Puerto Rico in Latin America, Monaco in Europe, and Nauru in Oceana.
F. Gross national income in purchasing power parity per capita (GNI PPP/capita) converts income into "international dollars" and indicates the amount of goods and services one could buy in the United States with a given amount of money.
Which country is the wealthiest in terms of GNI PPP/capita? Which is the second wealthiest? Which are the poorest two countries?
The wealthiest is Qatar, the second wealthiest is Kuwait, and the two poorest countries are Central African Republic and Congo, Dominican Republic.
G. A population grows because there are more births than deaths or more people are moving in than moving out. The difference between births and deaths is expressed as a percentage called the rate of natural increase.
Which major region is growing the fastest through natural increase? Which Major region is growing at the slowest rate? Within the major regions identified, which subregions are growing fastest? …

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