What is the life expectancy at birth? What is the infant mortality rate? What is the total fertility rate? What is the net number of migrants? Analysis: 1. What can you tell about your country’s growth rate by looking at your histogram (population pyramid)? Answers could include that the country is rapidly growing because of the large base of the pyramid. 2. If the and death rates remain the same as they are today, what will your pyramid look like in 25 years? The country will have an even broader pyramid 3. What are some factors that could change the shape of your pyramid? Industrialization, baby boom, infant mortality, control, government control of population numbers, etc., could all change the shape of the pyramid. 4. Determine the percentage of the population that has not yet reached childbearing age. What does this number say about the prospects for future growth? This will depend on which country the student chose. If your country’s population growth rate is not increasing, what are some economic problems that might occur? There will not be any younger people to work or pay taxes and the country’s system could be in jeopardy. Does your country have a baby boom (a bulge somewhere in the middle of it)? What could account for this? This will depend on which country the student chooses. Possible answers include war, natural disaster, less disease as a population moves through the demographic transition, etc. If you had a business and you wanted to capitalize on your information about the population age distribution, what would you sell and why? If the country has a lot of babies, for example, the business would sell baby diapers, bottles, cribs, pacifiers, strollers, etc.
What is the life expectancy at birth? What is the infant mortality rate? What is the total fertility rate? What is the net number of migrants? Analysis: 1. What can you tell about your country’s growth rate by looking at your histogram (population pyramid)? Answers could include that the country is rapidly growing because of the large base of the pyramid. 2. If the and death rates remain the same as they are today, what will your pyramid look like in 25 years? The country will have an even broader pyramid 3. What are some factors that could change the shape of your pyramid? Industrialization, baby boom, infant mortality, control, government control of population numbers, etc., could all change the shape of the pyramid. 4. Determine the percentage of the population that has not yet reached childbearing age. What does this number say about the prospects for future growth? This will depend on which country the student chose. If your country’s population growth rate is not increasing, what are some problems that might occur? There will not be any younger people to work or pay taxes and the country’s economic system could be in jeopardy. Does your country have a baby boom (a bulge somewhere in the middle of it)? What could account for this? This will depend on which country the student chooses. Possible answers include war, natural disaster, less disease as a population moves through the demographic transition, etc. If you had a business and you wanted to capitalize on your information about the population age distribution, what would you sell and why? If the country has a lot of babies, for example, the business would sell baby diapers, bottles, cribs, pacifiers, strollers, etc.
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