Topic 1: Population

Population
• What is population?
• Where people live
• How long people live
• How population size has changed
• Why some places have too many
people
• Controlling population size
Today: What is population?

• Birth rate
• Death rate
• Natural increase
• Life expectancy
What is population?
The number of people that
live in an area.
 Birth rate
• The number of births in a year per
1000 of total population.
• If 1000 people live in a country,
and 20 babies are born, the birth
rate is 20 births per 1000.
• What is the birth rate if, in a
population of 5,000, 30 babies are
born?
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 Death rate
• The number of deaths in a year per
1000 of total population.
• If 1000 people live in a country,
and 30 people die, the death rate
is 30 deaths per 1000.
• What is the death rate if in a
population of 8,000, 80 people die?
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 Natural increase
• This tells you if population size is
increasing or decreasing
• If birth rate is higher than the
death rate, the population is
increasing
• If death rate is higher than the
birth rate, the population will
decrease
 Life expectancy
This is how long people are
expected to live in a particular
country.
 Match the words with their correct
definitions
Birth rate: • The number of deaths in a year
per 1000 of total population.

Death rate: • This tells you if population size is

increasing or decreasing

Natural increase: • This is how long people are

expected to live in a particular
country.
Life expectancy:
• The number of births in a year
per 1000 of total population.
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 Today: Where people live and
how crowded it gets

• Population distribution
• Population density
• What does overpopulation
mean?
• What does dense mean?
• Many people living in one area,
or densely populated
• What does sparse mean?
• People are spread out, or
sparsely populated
• What does population
distribution mean?
• How people are spread out
• How and where do people
spread themselves out?
Why live here?
Why live here?
Why live here?
Why live here?
Is this dense?
• Does this mean
that this place is
over populated?
 Over populated means that there is
not enough resources to go round

• Examples of resources are:

• Jobs
• Food
• Houses
• Schools
• Hospitals
Population distribution and density
• Population distribution: How people are
spread out.
• Population density: How many people are
living in one area. A dense population is
when there are many people in one area.
A sparse population means they are
spread out.
• Overpopulated means that there are not
enough resources to go round the
population. This means that an area can
be overpopulated whether it is dense or
sparse.