ABSENT 01-14-2020

Today for class we talked about population. There are +7.6 billion people on Earth. The population increases by 73 million/yr, 8377/hr, 149/min and 2.5/sec. 90% of population growth takes place in developing countries in Africa, South/East Asia and Latin America. Crude birth rate is the number of births per 1,000 of the population. Crude death rate is the number of deaths per 1,000 of the population. The Rate of Natural Increase is produced by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate. This gives us the annual natural growth rate in percentage form- for a country or region. Net migration Rate is the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during a year. An excess of persons entering a country is net immigration. For example: Canada has 5.65 migrants per 1000 population. An excess of persons leaving a country is net emigration.