Population Lab

Human Population Demographics

This online lab is about demographics. It will show a comparing of the world’s population, fertility rate and mortality rate with one higher fertility rate country and one lower fertility rate country. The rate will be show the date 2050 to see what the population will be like for each country.

What was your high fertility rate country and what was its fertility rate?
I chose Africa because it’s a big continent and have a high rate of fertility rate. The fertility rate in the year 2050 is 5.3 children and the population 2 billion. On the graph it shows that most of the population are between the ages 0 to 19 which is all children.


What was your high fertility rate country and what was its fertility rate?
I chose Africa because it’s a big continent and have a high rate of fertility rate. The fertility rate in the year 2050 is 5.3 children and the population 2 billion. On the graph it shows that most of the population are between the ages 0 to 19 which is all children.


2. What was your low fertility rate country and what was its fertility rate?
I chose Japan because it’s a small country. The birth rate is 1.5 children. The population in the year 2050 is 101 million. On the graph it shows that the birth rate goes down as years go by. Comparing the year 1990 and 2050 the birth rate decreased, showing that the population gets lower each year.
3. The initial demographic "shape" of your high fertility rate country should have been a pyramid, with high population in young age groups. Explain why high fertility rate results in a high percentage of young people in the population. How does this affect future population growth?
The graph in Africa show that most of the younger generation takes up most of the population and also they are the one producing more children. How it effects the future population is that they younger generation will keep having babies at a young age, giving Africa a higher population each year. One thing to be aware of is that Africa have a high rate of AIDS too, which means more children being born with AIDS and more deaths. The population will be harder to control because of the lack of education, money, hospitals, and housings.
4. Your low fertility rate country might have had a more oval-shaped curve with high population in middle age groups. This is especially exaggerated if the fertility rate is below 2.00. Explain why low fertility rate leads to lots of middle-aged people.
In the United States, many are getting the proper education, knowledge of contraceptives, and have a stead income. During the years of “baby boom” many women were getting pregnant a younger age (still in high school) and the younger generation will want more for themselves and will want to go to college before starting a family of their own. With women being involved with their careers and men wanting to wait, and both wanted to have a better education, can delay childbearing till their late twenties to early thirds. The advertisement of college is very helpful too because the younger generation will want to go to college, have some independent before they are ready to settle down to have a family.
5. Write ten adjectives or descriptive phrases for what you might expect life, people's attitudes, conditions on the streets, etc. will be like in each of those situations. Imagine a situation with lots of middle-aged and older people in the population and write ten quick "brain-storm" descriptors for you think it would be like (Prescott, Arizona?). Then do the same for a situation with lots of children in the population.
Middle Age:
I think the people will be more educated, responsible, creative with streets and buildings, clean, concern with the environment, caring and loving, good income, have good knowledge of life, less violence, less drinking and drug use, and a friendlier community.

Lots of Children:
More crimes, low education, unmotivated, less income, dirty communities, no care of the environment, less responsible, rude and mean, have more excitement in life, loud, have an intense life, and single parents.

Conclusion:
I noticed that each country is different from one another because they each live and grow in different environments. Also I noticed that in the year 2050 the population for the world will keep increasing and it will be overcrowded making it hard to survive because people will eat more and the farming will get smaller. To help with the population in each country I think they need to understand what our future holds and give them a proper education and knowledge.