it talks about the world population growth

1. HUMAN POPULATION
AND ECONOMIC
ACTIVITIES
MR.YONAS GEMEDA
March2020
Addis Ababa,Ethiopia

2. Contents
•Concept and facts about human
population
•Economic Activities
•Natural Resources

3. Unit learning outcomes
• At the end of this chapter, you should be able to:
• Analyze the concept of human population
• Describe source of population data
• Explain about population density and distribution
• Distinguish settlement patterns of the world population
• Discuss the major economic activities of the world
• Recognize the importance of natural resource

4. Lesson objective
• At the end of this lesson, students will be
able to:
• Define the concept of human population
• Discuss facts about human population
• Distinguish sources of population data

5. Key terms
•Population
•Population data
•Settlement
•Rural settlement
•Urban settlement
•Census
•Town
•Metropolis
•Demography
•City
•Hamlet

6. What is population?
• The term population in population studies, refers to the total
number of inhabitants of specified area.
• Human population is the number of people living in a definite
area.

7. Human population studied by
• The academic disciplines which study human
population are:
• Geography
• Biology
• Sociology
• Medical science
• History etc.

8. Reason to study human
population
• The human population is studied for many reasons including the
following:
• It is very dynamic
• It has quantitative and qualitative changes over time
• To have policy and it’s implication
• To adjust situation to existing realities
• For development and socio economic activities

9. Population growth
• The world population has been experiencing continuous growth
since the 15th century.
• The rapid increase in size of the human population is attributed to
many factors that include:

11. The factors for rapid increase
• Advancement for scientific knowledge such as:
1. Agriculture
2. Industry
3. Medicine
4. Social organization
• Human’s ability to control famine and diseases
• The relatively lower cost of vaccines and other medicines

12. The factors
•Improvement in peoples living condition
•Increase in life expectancy

13. Population distribution
• The distribution of human population shows grat variation.
• Africa and other developing regions account for the largest share
of the world’s population.
• India and china alone make up 37% of world’s total.
• The share of the developed countries is projected to drop from
about 18% in 2008 to less than 14% in 2050

14. World population current and
future

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