Today in class we started our new unit which is called Population and settlement. I remembered to write down the key notes and took notes about population in the United States compared to the rest of the world using a population clock. I also took some more notes so here they are below, starting off with the key issues.
- Where is the world's population distributed?
- Why is global population increasing?
- Why does population growth vary among regions?
- Why do some regions face health threats?
Then I took some notes about population, here they are below
- Over 7.5 billion people are on the planet right now
- Increasing by over 73 million people per year
- Increasing by approximately 200,000 a day
- Increasing by 8377 per hour
- Increasing by 149 per minute
- Increasing by 2.5 per second
- 90% of this population growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia and Latin America
- In the United States every 8 seconds one baby is born, every 12 seconds one person dies, every 29 seconds an immigrant comes internationally and the net gain of one person is every 13 seconds
All in all today's class period was pretty good and I am excited to see what this unit is going to be all about.
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