Demography

Social Cambodia has a population of 15.458.332. 47,9 % of the population is 24 or younger. In the table below you can see a population pyramid. As you can see there are a lot of young people. The life expectancy at birth is 63,78 years. For females it is 66,32 and for males it is 61,35 years. So on average females get older then males in Cambodia. The average school life expectancy is 11 years and the percentage of child labor is 39% (based om 2008 and 2001 information) 90% of the ethnic…

There was about a 56% increase in the number of pacemakers from 1993 to 2009. So Is it hard to have a pacemaker? Or have problems with the heart? Well, Deb Shepherd knows. Deb is a hardworking 62-year-old woman. She has been married for 48 years to Roman Shepherd. They use to live down in Florida but now live in a small town in between Bryan and Edgerton called Melbern. She works at a factory in an office. She has a big family that consists of ten grandchildren and Six-teen…

In Peru, the presence of indigenous people is much different than that of Chile. According to the Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook, Peru’s indigenous people make up 45% of the nation’s population (The World Factbook: PERU). All together, they occupy over half of the country’s land, so obviously the places they do occupy are subject to different laws and regulations because of Peru’s geographic diversity. However, although they have much larger numbers in Peru, the nation’s indigenous…

1. 74% of the respondents were male and26% of the respondents were female. 2. 50% of the respondents fall in the age gathering of 15-25. 24% of the respondents fall in the age gathering of 25-35, 16% of the respondents fall in the age gathering of 35-45. 3. 14% respondents working for Indian Sugar Mills Association under 1 year, 18% respondents working for Indian Sugar Mills Association 1-3 years, 20% respondents 3-5 years working for Indian Sugar Millsorganization 4. 26% example of…

1.1.3 LIFE-ON THE STREET In the past recent years have indicated an alarming increasing in the number of street youths around the world especially in poor and developing countries such as is evident in Thailand, India, Braziland and here in south Africa (Tudoric-Ghemo,2005). It is believed that in order to reduce the number of street youths around the world, issues relating to the political and socio-economic status of a country needs to be addressed. This has been underscored by Maphatane…

For several thousands of years, humans and other living species have coexisted together, but as the human population continues to dramatically increase, the need for an extraneous amount of resources does as well. Over the past two decades, the human impact on wildlife is easily seen worldwide. Forests have been diminishing at an alarming rate. Deforestation is becoming more of a problem each day. Due to deforestation, biodiversity is decreasing, habitats are being severely polluted, and…

1. What are the advantages of smart cities? More than half the population of the world will be living in smart cities by the end of next decade. People want to avail benefits of a high tech environment living as an added advantage for those who want to. Technology is an aspect that is more responsive to people’s necessities, as one of the advantages of living in smart cities. Technology is also a powerful resource that tends to make people move towards cities making use of it. It is a response…

The United States is changing rapidly and is becoming a more culturally diverse population (Lemmon & Jackson-Bowen, 2013). A census conducted by the US Census Bureau predicted that by the year 2050, the minority population in the United States will expand by at least 44%, increasing the number of individuals that will be from culturally linguistically diverse backgrounds (Lemmon & Jackson-Bowen, 2013). This requires speech-language pathologists to increase their cultural competency to respond to…

4.1 CITY LEVEL INITIATIVES: 4.1.1 Chandigarh: Chandigarh has more than 35% of its geographical area under forests, parks and trees covers making it one of the greenest cities of the country. It is one of the modern planned cities of India. Chandigarh has a geographical area of about 140 sq,km, has a population of about 10,54,686 according to 2011 census and density around 7912 persons/ sq.km. The per capita availability of green space is around 55 sq.m and the number of green spaces in terms of…

Japan is a nation, which consists of four islands and four thousand small islands situated in the Pacific Ocean. The four major islands are Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu and Hokkaido. Japan’s population surpasses one hundred and twenty seven million, which makes it one of the largest populations in the world. The capital city, Tokyo constitutes a population of thirty million making it the biggest urban area in the world. Japan has the third largest economy in the world and the third lowest mortality…