Demographic Indicators

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Demographic Indicators

• Populations, groups of people, transition.
• The measurement of development based on the
  increase and decrease, natural or otherwise, of
  populations
• Indonesia

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Demographic Indicators

• Less developed countries are increasing at 1.7
  per cent annually

• Developed countries are increasing at 0.1 per
  cent annually

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Demographic transition A model demonstrating
the change of birth and death rates over time.
It can be applied to developed and less developed
regions of the world.
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Demographic Indicators

• It is thought that the greatest threat to the
  global biophysical environment lies in the rapid
  growth, economically and in terms of population,
  of developing countries such as India.
• Northern India

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Sustainable development Balance between
population and resources
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The problem lies in developing countries. Too
many people, increasing too rapidly, requiring
more resources than they already have.

• So how do we solve this problem?

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We must do 2 things

• 1. Ensure population growth is stabilised in some
  developing countries

• 2. Ensure the 20 of the worlds richest nations
  practice restraint on their own consumption.
• (we consume 80 of the worlds natural
  resources!)

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World Population Growth
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World Population Growth
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Comparative Population Growth
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• Pregnant women
  at a health clinic in Nairobi, Africa

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Total population, proportion urban, and
proportion of elderly in urban and rural
populations, various countries, latest available
years