Geography 100 online
Exercise #6: Demographic Transition (12 pts)
(due by 11: 45 pm Sunday, 5/17)
Students are to review the Demographic Transition model that describes global trends in changing population dynamics and find individual country examples of various stages in the model.
Look over the discussion in Chapter #5 in Introduction to Geography especially pp. 120-130 as well as the website http://pages.uwc.edu/keith.montgomery/Demotrans/demtran.htm
and answer the following questions:
Refer to Appendix Three in Introduction to Geography (A.13—A.19) and answer each of the following:
Find two countries that have the characteristics of being in the 2nd stage of the demographic transition process. Be sure to include the name of the country and the Crude Birth Rate, the Crude Death Rate, the % Natural Increase and the % Urban. (2 pts)
Country
CBR
CDR
%NI
%urban
Country
CBR
CDR
%NI
%urban
Find two countries that have the characteristics of being in the 3rd stage of the demographic transition process. Be sure to include the name of the country and the Crude Birth Rate, the Crude Death Rate, the % Natural Increase and the % Urban. (2 pts)
Country
CBR
CDR
%NI
%urban
Country
CBR
CDR
%NI
%urban
Find two countries that have the characteristics of being in the 4td stage of the demographic transition process. Be sure to include the name of the country and the Crude Birth Rate, the Crude Death Rate, the % Natural Increase and the % Urban.
(2 pts)
Country
CBR
CDR
%NI
%urban
Country
CBR
CDR
%NI
%urban
The textbook suggests there is a 5th stage in the Demographic Transition Process. Find two countries that have the characteristics of being in the 5td stage of the demographic transition process. Be sure to include the name of the country and the Crude Birth Rate, the Crude Death Rate, the % Natural Increase and the % Urban. (2 pts)
Country
CBR
CDR
%NI
%urban
Country
CBR
CDR
%NI
%urban
E) Explain in 4 to 6 sentences, the relationship between the level of urbanization and the demographic transition process. (2 pts)
F) Find one country that is clear exception to the Demographic Transition Model. Explain in 4 to 6 sentences why it doesn’t fit the model. (2 pts)