Lab 2

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

I used Africa because i know that there fertility is extremely high and they already have a high population! Also, my friend jason is down there right now, doing some work so i chose this one. The fertility rate of Africa is 5.3 children! This will make Africa have about 2.69 Billion People in the year 2050!

2. What was your low fertility rate country and what was its fertility rate?

I chose Italy because my family is from there! Italy's fertility rate was 1.5 children! Only putting Italy at about 48.5 million people in the year 2050!

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?

In africa (as i explained in my ethical essay) they cant afford contraceptives! So being young they tend to have a lot of kids. however, they cant afford them! When each family is having about 5 children, this also means that these children wont be taken care of properly. They wont have education, will be poor, and will produce lots of offspring the same way. Many of them are trying to flee the country and go else where. Where opportuinty is endless and they can get proper medical care leading them to the united states! This will also make the United Stated very populated also!

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.

This is happening more and more now days. Women are taking over there own lives and are going to career first then starting a family! So by the time they feel settled down in a job and feel successful they are in there middle ages.

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.

In a heavy populated situation people can be tired, careless, incompedent, no work eithic, unstable, restless, poor, crime infested, disease infested.

In a little area people are strong, family oreinted, hard working, simple, organized, heathy, knowledgeable, settle down, goal oriented!