September 23

Today in Mr. Schick's Human geo class we went over a lot of numbers and facts about the world.  Some of those numbers and facts are listed below:

life expectancy                                immigration-entering a country or nation
crude birth rate
developing nations                           emigration-leaving a country or nation
developed nations
rate of natural increase
net migration rate                             life expectancy_ average number of years you are  immigration                                      expected to live by a group of people that were born in the
emigration                                         same year as you were
push forces
pull forces
total fertility rates

We learned that there are 7 billion people in the world and that is increasing by 77 million people a year
90% of population growth is in developing countries
CBR-number of births per 1,000 people
CDR-number of deaths per 1,000 people
Push Forces- economy, the way they live, government, jobs, etc.
Pull Forces- lots of jobs, good living conditions, good government, etc.