GEOG 1004: Introduction to Human Geography Mandatory Assignment: Disruptive Demographics Student Name: _Alyn Wakefield__________ Student Number: _____906111600______ Questions: Q1. In the article, Six Disruptive Demographic Trends: What Census 2010 Will Reveal, James Johnson Jr. and John Kasarda outline a number of ‘disruptive demographic trends’ using data from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Internal Revenue Service, and other government agencies/sources. Please list the six disruptive trends that are outlined in the article. 1.______The…
Many years after the cure for aging became available to everyone, Earth became overpopulated to the point where countries started bombing themselves just to reduce the population: “Three massive, nuclear-scale explosions were detected in China . . . .The explosions appear to be centered on . . .A combined population of nearly sixty-five million people” (Magary 266).…
It is made clear in “Models, Mobals, and Migration” that demographics and geographics are ever-changing. Regardless of any type of professor or scientist’s credibility, any type of logical prediction will become outdated at some point in the future to come. De Blij uses geologist Arthur Howard’s rejection of the Pangea Theory, political scientist David Apter’s far miss of prediction of Africa’s future, biologist Paul Ehlrich’s neo-Malthusianism, and scientist Nigel Calder’s proposal of a self-cooling planet which happens to be a polar-opposite to the global warming controversy in global society. By simply viewing the Demographic Transition Model (DTM) that is accepted and used by geographers internationally, you can observe how demographic…
The expression “graying of America” indicates the fact that the American population is gradually being more dominated by people of age. In other words, the population of America as a country is getting older meanwhile the median age of Americans is increasing. As a result of the “Graying of America” a shift in economic thinking must take place therefore being the principle of funding for health care and other programs. Mankind is growing in number and in age, through research and analysis approximately by 2030 there is an estimated growth of eight billion people with one in eight over sixty-five.…
The current world population is a constraining 7 billion people, and shows no signs of slowing down. Amidst the growing population rises an issue, which can no longer be over looked. The population is not scattered uniformly across the globe, there are different concentrations of population in different places. However, some are comparable in size. Just like human characteristics, there are characteristics for all countries that can be scrutinized.…
ENV Homework 1 By: Carly Middleton 1a. Describe China’s one-child policy In the late 1970’s, China’s population was approaching 1 billion people. If 1 billion people were going to inhabit the 3,601,011 square miles of China, then each person would have .0036 square miles for themselves.…
In the past years, cancer has been a common reason for death. Research shows that the older you get the more risk you have of getting cancer. There are current trends about cancer specifically related to age. I am writing this essay to explain these current trends. The current trends about cancer specifically related to age are increasing.…
1. The shift in demographics will have a drastic impact on health status, health services, and health expenditures. With constant advancement in research in technology regarding health and diseases, the population of old age people is increasing significantly. A way to measure health status is performing activities of daily living (ADL). In the National Center for Health Statistics' National Health Interview Survey, it was reported that in 1980, 3.1 non-institutionalized million people needed assistance with these daily activities.…
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 is expected to increase by forty two years.…
The increase population causes increase demand for meat and alcohol. ( Doc. B ). In order to make these products it needs to have a great deal of water. ( Doc. B ). So basically, the increase of population makes more water consuming and there will be less water for other people and less water for other purposes.…
When comparing the population pyramids for Malawi from 1977 (earliest) to 2050 it is seen that the country had a high fertility, low life expectancy, and high mortality rate in 1977. Moving into the next period (1990), fertility and mortality remain relatively high, and life expectancy is seen to gradually be increasing as more people are surviving to the older age groups. Which is seen, as most of the population resides at the base of the pyramid, the population is young, and very few of the children and infants live to old age. While the current population pyramid displays high fertility but declining mortality. It is also observed that the values in the pyramid shift, the bulk of the population is still towards the bottom, however the discrepancy…
Throughout Asia there are lots of ways that the population increased and decreased over sixty years. In sixty year the population tripled from fifty million to one - hundred and fifty million people. Fifty years ago women would have up to seven children but out of the seven children four of them would potentially die from illnesses and diseases, the others lived up to at most fifty year. Then technology of doctors and people caught up to the population. Women were educated about illnesses, child birth rates, and people's health in general.…
Over the past few decades and in the coming decades the structure of United States’ population is expected to change greatly. Changes in population are primarily focused on the older population as it is “important to public and private interest, both socially and economically” (Ortman, Velkoff, 2014, p. 1). To put it into perspective, the population of those 65 and over in 2050 is expected to be 83.7 million compared to the 431 million in 2012 mostly due to the baby boomer generation. While the aging population provides the nation with great qualities such as work ethic, wisdom, leadership, legacy, inspiration, values, tradition, and culture, there are several concerns that arise with a population that contains a distortional amount of older…
Similarly, Togo’s Fertility can be analyzed through studying different measurements taken from certain groups of the population throughout different points in time. The crude birth rate is probably the simplest and most common measurement of fertility and as of the year 2015, Togo maintained a rate of 38 births per 1,000 of the population per year. Additionally, the total fertility rate was most recently (2015) projected at 4.8, however, that projection only shows what would happen if the childbearing conditions remained exactly the same. In 2013, the age specific birth rate for adolescent fertility was 53 births per 1,000 women ages 15-19 years old.…
In order to do this, I plan on creating a map if the disease, including factors like public transition, economical status, and population in area. These factors on the disease cases may help to understand patterns that may present themselves. The third is the Theory of Epidemiologic Transition, which looks at that complex changes of the pattern of disease and health and the pattern on the people within the society. It order to do this it looks at the demographic, economic, and sociologic aspects of the society (1). This is important to understanding the pattern of the disease in different groups of people.…