What factors can affect the distribution of a population?

Physical Factors

Human & political

Economic

Population pyramidsDescribe what the population pyramid shows

5

1. Sketch and explain the shapes

of the profiles2. What

would stage 5s pyramid look like?

1. Find a 5 stage picture of the demographic transition model on the internet. Put this in the centre of a word document.

2. Using the IDB website locate population pyramids for China, Zimbabwe, the UK and Germany, plus one other, which have a population pyramid similar to each model stage diagram on page 165. Add these around the DTM you have found. Use data for THIS YEAR

3. Research each of those countries to describe and explain the shape of the pyramid on the same document

Population pyramids –Case study tasks

2,177,062 note:  estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected Age structure:  0-14 years:  39.28% (male 430,147; female 424,994) 15-64 years:  56.03% (male 588,440; female 631,404) 65 years and over:  4.69% (male 43,033; female 59,044) (2001 est.)Population growth rate:  1.49% (2001 est.)Birth rate:  31.24 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)Death rate:  15.7 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)Net migration rate:  -0.63 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)http://www.worldpress.org/profiles/lesotho.cfm

China

Germany

UK

Zimbabwe

Attempt all activities between pages 164 to 166

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