World Population History

WORLD POPULATION HISTORY

To study the population:

World Population History

Demography: is considered the key science to understand every population Demography

The population:

Focuses on the increases and decreases in births and deaths that every population experiences every year Demography also analyses rates (relative values)

Is all the people living in a specific place at an specific time. Around the beginning of the Neolithic Age, the world´s population was around eight million people.

Fertility Rates

By the 1st century, it was about 300 million, an irregular increasing as consequence of wars, diseases and high levels of infant mortality.

Birth Rates

Death Rates

There are many factors that influence fertility rates:

Fertility Rates

Relates the number of births in a year to women of reproductive age

Factors:

Religious Beliefs. Attitude towards women. The countless changes that experience the social mindset.

Birth Rates

The number of children born in a specific place in a year per 1.000 people

The number of people that die in a specific place in a year Factors that affect these rates: the age structure of the population and socioeconomic factors..

Death Rates

These rates have always been higuer in developed countries than in less developed countries

Changes

Reason:

Less developed countries: Tend to fall: Reasons: Medical Advances. Non Governmental organisations (Save the Children)

A population with increasing numbers of older people

They are exposed to:

Cancer

Heart diseases