Unit 2 Human Geography: Population Change

1. Unit 2 Human Geography: Population Change Unit Lessons How does population grow? What are the major factors affecting population growth? What is the demographic transition model? What countries are in the different stages of the demographic transition model? What are population pyramids? How do we use population pyramids? Why was the One Child Policy introduced and how was it enforced? How has the One Child Policy changed and has it been successful? What alternative birth control programmes exist? What are the issues and opportunities for an ageing population? How has France tackled the problems of an ageing population? What are the impacts of economic migration within the EU? What are the impacts of refugee movements into the EU? Independent study To create a report on the One Child Policy. To create an informative poster comparing the One Child Policy to Kerala’s alternative policy. To create a report on France’s pro-natal policy.

2. What is the demographic transition model? Learning Objectives To know the trends in the demographic transition model To understand how to interpret the demographic transition model N Key terms: High fluctuating, early expanding, late expanding, low fluctuating, natural decrease

3. What is the demographic transition model? The demographic transition model shows population change over time. The model shows how birth rate and death rate affect the total population of a country. There are 5 stages of the model.

4. Stage 1 High fluctuating • High death rate • High birth rate • Low total population(high death and birth rate cancel each other out) • Britain circa 1200-1500 Factors include…disease, poor living conditions, hard labour, high infant mortality…

5. Stage 2 Early expanding • Slowly declining death rate • High birth rate • Natural increase in population begins • Britain circa 1500-1800 …Health care improves so death rates fall, larger families still wanted as UK is still farming based society…

6. Stage 3 Late expanding • Low death rate • Slowly declining birth rate • High natural increase in population (J shaped graph) • Britain circa 1800-1900 …beginnings of modern health care, Industrial Revolution reduces the need for larger families, family planning & birth control introduced…

7. Stage 4 Low fluctuating • Low death rate • Low birth rate • Population growth levels off (S shaped graph) • Britain circa 1900-2000 …equal roles of men and women, emancipation of women, advanced medicine, casual relationships, later marriages…

8. Stage 5 Natural decrease • Increasing death rate • Low birth rate • Fall in total population (natural decrease) • Britain 2050??? … high elderly population increases death rate, women fully empowered, later marriages, causal sex, birth rate falls below replacement level

9. Living graph task Read the statements and tick the box that fits what each statement describes… birth rate (B/R), death rate (D/R) or population change (P/C). Cut out the statements and place them on part of the graph that makes the most sense by thinking about how they will affect/are affected by the birth and death rate Justify your choices, referring to birth rates, death rates or population changes