Population indicators to include vital rates (birth rate, death rate, fertility rate, infant mortality rate, changes over time, life expectancy, migration rate and population density) for countries at different stages of development. Back to Peo1 L6Peo3 Mortality Highest Death rates in LDCs esp, Sub Saharan Africa [Identify] Introduce Shael and Sub sahraan region SAHEL = Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, and Eritrea

Link to map http://www.world66.com/myworld66/visitedCountries Sahara

Sudan Region [not country]

Sub Sahara

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Liberia, Niger, Sierra Leone, Zambia + Zimbabwe all over 20/1000 [Think Independent, Drought, Blood diamond, Copper, Mugabe] Prep – 5 minute presentation / round up on one country each Which Country?

BUT also some of the lowest are found in LDCs Kuwait [2/1000], Bahrain [3], Mexico [5]. WHY?

Infant Mortality

The chance of dying in the first year of life Prime indicator of socio economic development – most sensitive. Sierra Leone [163], Liberia [142], Finland [3]. Direct correlation with mortality.

Medical Infrastructure – High level of care equals low mortality – prenatal, post natal, facilities [hospitals, clinics + surgeries], professionals and ignorance of the need for care (BarkRedSkin 152) No. of people per doctor – are high values good or poor?

Life Expectancy Higher in MDCs; WHY LDCs have poverty, poor nutrition [+diet], a lack of clean water + sanitation. See Fig 5.3 BarkRedSkin Pg152 Only 58% of population has access to sanitation – FACT Be ‘choropleth careful’ here though; National statistics mask regional and local disparities. Link between poor sanitation + access to water. www.worldmapper.org

One is non-communicable diseases, one infectious and parasitic: Which is which? [Think cancer, diabetes, malaria, AIDS] AIDS – any similarities?

Most effect in sub-Saharan Africa Now over 40 million worldwide [Total pop = ?] In some countries in S Africa over 20% affected – Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana+ Zimbabwe

What are the surrounding countries?

Out of 7 million AIDS sufferers in S + SE Asia 5 million are in India Infection rates declining in some countries

Globally mortality rates are falling – people more willing to control mortality than fertility. Population Density

The distribution of a population is how spread out people are across a country. Density is the number of people in a particular area usually a square kilometre.

Sparse Low Sparse Densely Evenly density evenly population populated distributed distributed clustered in Clustered in the dense. NW corner NE Whitehaven Wild West USA Las Vegas Newcastle o T New York

General feeling is that LDCs have higher population distribution NOT THE CASE [DVD 4.1 = yr2000] How have these figures changed?

Somalia 14 Ethiopia 70 51 Netherlands 394 UK 251 [WPDS -2007]

But poorer countries concentrated into cities [high level of urbanisation] so it is a matter of distribution.

Highest Densities 2005 Lowest Densities 2005 Bangladesh 1005 Australia 2 Taiwan 636 Mongolia 2 South Korea 492 Namibia 2 Nehterlands 395 Botswana 3 Lebanon 368 Canada 3 Source geog.gcse To what extent to you agree with the hypothesis Population density relates to level of development?

How would you test this?

Spearmans rank Could you update the data for last year? – where from?