Population

France’s population patterns and birth rates diverged significantly from those that could be observed in Britain and the rest of Europe during the nineteenth century. In what way did they diverge? What were some of the reasons for this divergence as well as the consequences in terms of French political, social, cultural and economic life during the course of the nineteenth century? Ancien Regime France was the financial, demographic and cultural hub of Europe. A large unified landmass, a vast…

A. Population Growth 1. General trend and population changes 1.1. Japan Within Japan there has been a steady increase of the population in both sexes. This increase has been steady until 2015 where it dipped back down to 126’573 thousand people, which is just lower than what it was in 2005 at 126’979 thousand people (United Nations, 2015). Japan has one of the few countries with a decreasing population. This is a problem for the country and needs to be solved quickly. 1…

Population aging has changed America over the last century and demographic structure. Population aging is an increase in the median age of the country due to rising life expectancy and decreased birth rates. Demography is based on the size, composition and distribution of population. Within the United States population the median age was seventeen in eighteen twenty and by two thousand it increased by thirty five years. Also, the older population continues to grow by twenty thirty the median age…

1.1 Population Growth Population growth is an increase in the number of people living in a country during a period of time. There are factors to determine population growth, such as (Fig. 1): Fig. 1 Even though Singapore’s population stands at 5.54 million, Singapore’s population grows at a slowest rate in 10 years. It has increased by 1.2% from 5.47 million in June 2014 to 5.54 million in June 2015. Singapore’s population consists of residents and non-residents As for the residents; it is…

of its large population consisting of many cultures and traditions, the country has become known by many as the ‘rainbow nation’. Its location has placed it on the third world countries list, meaning it falls under some of the world’s poorest countries thus its economy is not as great and grows at…

our mind when discussing the government intervention on population growth is always the controversial one-child policy of the People’s Republic of China, a policy imposed in the 1980s, aimed to stabilize the supply of food and water and improve individual prosperity (Moore, 2014). Nowadays, the focus of the world on population growth shifts from birth control to immigration control, as a surprising report showed that 80% of U.S. population growth comes from immigrants (Bedard, 2014), and how the…

Population aging, a worldwide phenomenon is changing age structure of the society. The world’s population proportion of aged 60 years or over increased by 4 percent (from 8 to 12 percent) since 1950 to 2013 (UN, 2013). It is predicted that it will rapidly increase in the next four decades, reaching 21 percent in 2050 (UN, 2013). In the U.S. the proportion of people more than 65 years represented about 14.1 percent (44.7 million), about one in every seven Americans in 2013 (ACL, 2014). By 2040,…

Currently in newest figures from 2013 shows an estimated resident population of 58,158. The following statistics are from the year 2012 – working on these 2012 data the residents of West Torrens area was 57,525 – 28,223 are male and 29,302 are female. The median age for the area is 37.6 years of age. The population by age groups: 0 -14 years old – 14.7 percent, of these 4,233 are male and 4,219 are Female 15 – 24 years old – 14.2 percent, of these 4,121 are male and 4,035 are female 25 – 34…

increase in the human population on earth. Humans have been on this planet for an estimated three million years and we have grown to a current population of approximately seven billion. Environmental scientists question the limits of the earth and how long many people it can accommodate before too much of a toll is taken and the population can no longer be sustained by the resources we have on earth. For thousands of years, the hunter and gatherer ways kept the population to a manageable ten…

The major rapid growth of different populations in our megacities comes at the wrong time. Global population growth is currently in the process from all the poorest parts of countries. Especially when it comes to destinations such as Africa and India. Clearly, India is a growing population with even increasing education levels, which is likely to put India as a power player in the future. According to the different UN Projections, India’s urban population will increase by nearly 250 million in…