Development and demography
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can explain the links between levels of development and demography.
Key learning points
- Countries at different levels of development have differences in their demographic characteristics.
- The different demographic characteristics include birth rate or fertility rate, death rate and population structure.
- A population pyramid enables us to compare population structure of different countries.
- The economic impact of different population structures may be understaod by calculating the dependency ratio.
- There are links between the stages of the Demographic Transition Model and the level of development.
Keywords
Demography - the study of population: its size, composition and change over time
Birth rate - the number of births for every 1000 people in a population per year
Natural increase - when a population grows in size as result of the birth rate being higher than the death rate
Population pyramid - an age-sex graph used to present the structure of a population (that may resemble a pyramid)
Demographic transition model - a theoretical model that suggests how birth rate, death rate and total population change over time
Common misconception
That there are few people who live to 65 years and beyond in LICs and NEEs.
It is the proportion of the population that is small not the actual number of people. Some LICs and NEEs have large populations so there are millions of people who reach the age of 65 years plus.
Teacher tip
This topic provides the opportunity for students to practise interpreting bar graphs and line graphs; and link the data to the 'story' of a country's development. You may wish to set a research task using online resources.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is the definition of development?
Q2.What term describes what happens when birth rate is higher than death rate?
Q3.The number of deaths of children under the age of for every 1000 live births is known as the infant mortality rate.
Q4.Average years of is a social measure of development. It tells us about the opportunity people in general have had to gain skills within a country.
Q5.Developed countries often have birth rates due to better access to contraception and education.
Q6.Many have a youthful population and therefore a high birth rate and lower death rate.
Assessment exit quiz
5 Questions
Q1.As countries develop socially and economically, women choose to start a family later and have fewer children so the country's will fall.
Q2.A population pyramid shows the structure of a population.
Q3.The transition model is a theoretical model that suggests how birth rate, death rate and population change over time.
Q4.Match the term with the correct definition.
the number of births for every 1000 people in a population, per year.
the population grows as birth rate is higher than death rate.
the average number of children born to a woman in her lifetime.
Q5.A dependency ratio shows that a large proportion of the population is young or old and depends on working-age people to support them.
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