GEOG 110 – Population Demographics Assignment
NAMES (please work in PAIRS)
PHASE 1: Use the CIA World Factbook site to look up the requested information for these three countries:
Units
Total land area
Arable land
Convert metric
English units
%
Syria
185,180
SQ KM
Nigeria
71,498
SQ MI
923,768
SQ KM
24.9%
Ukraine
356,669
SQ MI
603,550
SQ KM
233,032
SQ MI
38.97%
53.85%
177,155,754
44,291,413
Population
PEOPLE
17,951,639
Crude birth rate
PER 1,000 ppl
22.76
38.03
9.41
Crude death rate
PER 1,000 ppl
6.51
13.16
15.72
Net migration rate
PER 1,000 ppl
-113.51
-0.22
-0.06
2.68
5.25
1.3
15.79
74.09
8.1
Infant mortality rate
CHILDREN PER
WOMAN
PER 1,000 LIVE
BIRTHS
Life expectancy
YEARS
Total fertility rate
M:
61.4
F:
75.84
M:
51.63
F:
53.66
M:
63.78
F:
74.86
PHASE 2: Use the data above to calculate five additional statistics, using the formulas shown below.
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Arithmetic (crude) density = Population / total land area
Physiological density = Population / arable land area
Natural population change = CBR – CDR
Demographers and statisticians also consider the effects of migration on a country’s population. Net migration rate (NMR) is the
difference between the number of people entering a country every year (immigration) and the number of people leaving a country
every year (emigration). The overall population growth rate (PGR), then, needs to account for natural changes (birth and death
rates) as well as changes related to relocation (net migration rate). These rates are all reported as per 1,000. Population growth rate,
however, is expressed as a percent (%, which literally means “per hundred”); to convert a “per 1,000” number to a “per 100”
number, you simply need to divide by 10. The formula appears below:
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Population growth rate = (CBR – CDR + NMR) / 10
Finally, it is often useful to estimate the length of time it would take for a population to double if it continued growing at the current
rate. Note that a population will only double if it is increasing. The formula for estimating the doubling time (expressed in years)
appears below.
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Approximate doubling time = 70 / population growth rate
Units
Syria
Nigeria
Ukraine
Amount of
arable land
SQ MI
24.9% of 71,498 =
17,803 sq mi
38.97% of 356,669 =
138,994
53.85% of 233,032 =
125,488
Arithmetic (crude)
density
PPL / SQ MI
17,951,639 / 71,498 =
251.1 ppl/sq mi
177,155,754 / 356,669 =
496.7
44,291,413 / 233,032 =
190.1
Physiological
density
PPL / SQ MI
ARABLE LAND
17,951,639 / 17,803 =
1008.3 ppl/sq mi of arable
land
177,155,754 / 138,994 =
1274.6
44,291,413 / 125,488 =
353.0
Natural population
change
PPL / 1000
22.76 – 6.51 =
16.25 ppl/1000
38.03 – 13.16 =
24.87
9.41 – 15.72 =
–6.31
Population growth
rate
%
(22.76 – 6.51 – 113.51) / 10 =
–9.7%
(38.03 – 13.16 – 0.22) / 10 =
2.46%
(9.41 – 15.75 – 0.06) / 10 =
–0.64%
Approximate
doubling time
YEARS
Negative growth rate;
never doubling
70 / 2.46 = 28.5 years
Negative growth rate;
never doubling