Population and Settlement Blog

In class today, we took notes on a power point presented by Mr. Schick. One thing that we learned in the power point is that there are over seven billion people on the planet right now. Of this, ninety percent of the growth population happens in the places such as Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America.  We also learned about Life Expectancy. Life Expectancy is the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year. In the United States, it is 78.49 years. Crude Birth Rate is the number of births per 1,000 of the population. Crude Death Rate, is exact same but instead the number of deaths. Net Migration rate is the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during a year. The United States has a NMR of 3.62. People migrate for multiple reasons. First, there are push forces, which include civil wars, environmental degradation, unemployment, and religious or ethnic persecution. Second, there are pull forces such as better economic opportunity, better healthcare services, and religious or political freedom. The Total Fertility Rate is the average number of children born per women. All these things represent what kind of world we live in and how diverse it really can be.