Lab 8

This is a graph of Madagascar


This is a graph of Africa

1. What was your high fertility rate country and what was its fertility rate?

Africa- fertile rate was 5.90 children at 54.9 years
Africa's high- 6.5 children at 57 years
Madagascar fertile rate- 6.81 children at 53.1 years
Madagascar high- 7.8 children at 55 years

2. What was your low fertility rate country and what was its fertility rate?
Africa's fertile rate-5.90 children at 53.1 years
Africa's fertile low rate-5 children at 50 years
Madagascar's fertile rate-6.81 children at 53.1 years
Madagascar's fertile low rate-6 children at 51.2 years

3. The initial demographic "shape" of your high fertility rate country should have been a pyramid, with high population in young age groups. Explain why high fertility rate results in a high percentage of young people in the population. How does this affect future population growth?
There is a higher percentage of younger people due to the life expectancy. They are expected to live shorter lives than people in America live. People in these countries have many children so at most points there are more children running around than there are adults. They have poverty and issues with the water and food so the adults tend to feed the younger children and the adults tend to get sick and eventually die off quicker than adults. This is a big issue because if you have a world that has manly younger people than at younger and younger ages they will be giving birth and it could eventually kill off there country.







4. Your low fertility rate country might have had a more oval-shaped curve with high population in middle age groups. This is especially exaggerated if the fertility rate is below 2.00. Explain why low fertility rate leads to lots of middle-aged people.
It can happen when couples aren't having enough children. For example if every home only has 1 child than the population is going to have more older people and over time it is going to be very hard to reverse that.

5. Write ten adjectives or descriptive phrases for what you might expect life, people's attitudes, conditions on the streets, etc. will be like in each of those situations. Imagine a situation with lots of middle-aged and older people in the population and write ten quick "brain-storm" descriptors for you think it would be like (Prescott, Arizona?). Then do the same for a situation with lots of children in the population.
-over run
-not enough life
-more sick
-more needy
-less quiet
-more hospitals
-more nurses
-less schools
-less cars on the road
-more retirement homes

LOTS OF CHILDREN
-more schools
-more kid activities
-less retirement homes
-more cars on the road
-more accidents
-more drinking
-more cops
-more jobs
-less complaints
-more fast foods