answer the questions below as you do the readings.
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POPULATION AND MIGRATION ASSIGNMENT.pdf – download and print out the PDF and record the answers to use on the “Assignment quiz” – (same directions as below)
POPULATION AND MIGRATION ASSIGNMENT
Read the following articles (or play with the maps) and then take the “Assignment quiz” associated with them. This quiz is not designed to be “tricky” but merely to make sure you’ve done the readings. The answers to these questions below will be the answers to the quiz but you must do all the readings beforehand because it will be timed. To get 100% on the readings quiz answer the questions below as you do the readings and then use those answers to take the quiz. Some of the questions may draw on your actual lecture notes, you may also use your lecture notes to find the answers as needed and you may also use those on the “reading quiz.”
#1: Population Data Curves (Links to an external site.) (click on the “data curves” box)
1. Has population density increased or decreased over time?
2. Is the number of children per women above, below or equal to replacement level in 1950? Today? In 2100?
3. Will the death rate increase or decrease between now and 2100? Why do you think that is?
4. What was the average LE in 1950? Today? In 2100?
5. How many people are over age 65 today? What will happen to that number moving forward to 2100 and what are the implications?
6. Rank the Life Expectancy of the regions listed (Africa, LA & Caribbean, North America, Europe, Oceania, Asia)
7. Which region has the highest average number of children per woman?
#2: Country Rankings (Links to an external site.) (click on the “country rankings” box)
1. According to this site what year will India overtake China as the world’s largest country?
2. List the other top ten population countries that year.
3. Which country has the longest LE today? What is the predicted longest LE in the year 2100? Where does the U.S. rank on that list in 2100?
4. What are the top 3 countries in terms of population over 65 in 2100?
#3: Fretting over Birthrates (Links to an external site.)
- What are the increasingly thorny problems associated with ageing and lower birthrates mentioned in the article?
- By 2025 which will be the only developing country with more people under 20 than over 65?
- Why is the situation even worse in some Eastern European countries (like Ukraine and Bulgaria)?
#4: Paying for Babies (Links to an external site.) – read this story OR even better listen to it
- Have the fertility incentives in places such as Germany and Japan been successful (in convincing families to have more children and thus increase total population)?
#5: China’s two-child policy (Links to an external site.)
1. The Chinese Gov’t says how many births were prevented by the one-child policy
2. When was the ONE-child policy introduced in China?
3. What is China’s new concern about its population?
(Links to an external site.)#6: Africa: The Young Continent (Links to an external site.)
1. How many children remain “the norm” in Ethiopia?
2. Is that the case in the capital as well or what’s the average there?
3. According to the article, what is the average number of children the average women now has?
4. According to UN what percentage of the world’s population lives in countries where the TFR is below the replacement level?
5. If new projections are correct what percentage of the world’s population will live in Africa by 2100?
6. What are the “handful of prerequisites” needed for a falling TFR?
7. Are there still married women in the world who can’t get access to contraception?
#7: Migration interactives (Links to an external site.)
1. Which country has the largest total NUMBER of migrants?
2. What PROPORTION of that country’s population are migrants?
3. Rank the following countries in terms of their PROPORTION of migrants: USA, CANADA, MEXICO, UNITED KINGDOM, SWEDEN, SAUDI ARABIA, AUSTRALIA, INDIA.
4. Use the rank/country tab (Links to an external site.), what are the top 3 countries in terms of PROPORTION of migrants? Why do you think that is?
5. What are the top 3 in terms of actual number of migrants?
answer the questions below as you do the readings
