Population and Settlement

Today in class, we did any homework from previous classes because we were waiting for David to take the test. I did my spanish homework and then I started copying the notes from Mr. Schick's power point on his blog. In my opinion, this unit of population and settlement is better than maps. Below are the notes from the powerpoint that we covered today.

People of the land:

• over 7.6 billion people on the planet right now.
• increasing by over 73 million lives per year.
• by approximately 200,000 per day.
• 8,377 per hour.
• 149 per minute.
• 2.5 per second
• 90% of this population growth takes the place in the developing countries of Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America.

Here is the website we went on today that gave us information about the birth and death rate of the United States compared to the birth rate of the world.

https://www.census.gov/popclock/

It was a very interesting website. For every 8 seconds, a baby is born in the United States and for every 11 seconds, a person is killed. And for every 34 seconds, one international migrant is coming to the U.S. As of July 1, 2019, the top ten populous countries (in order from most to least) are China, India, United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, and Mexico.

• China- 1,389,618,778
• India- 1,311,559,204
• United States- 331,883,986
• Indonesia- 264,935,824
• Pakistan- 210,797,836
• Brazil- 210,301,591
• Nigeria- 208,679,114
• Bangladesh- 161,062,905
• Russia- 141,944,641
• Mexico- 127,318,112