Chapter 16An Introduction to the Study of Population

Changes in Population

• Demography is the study of human populations. Studying demography can help you understand the population geography of Canada and other countries.

• Population can change a number of ways. Immigration, Emigration, Births and deaths all affect population totals.

Using rates not numbers

• It is pointless to directly compare two countries total number of births since the population of all countries are very different. For example Canada has about 906 children being born per day, while Russia has about 3836 children born/day. Looking at these figures may be very misleading, as Russia has 143 million people while Canada has only 32 million people. instead we must understand the relationship between the number of births and the size of the population.

• We use measurements for comparison purposes. The birth rate of a country measures the number of births per year for every 1000 people. The death rate is used to measures the number of deaths per year for every 1000 people.

• Birth rate = Total Births/population X 1000• Death rate = Total Deaths/population X 1000

• Using these measurements, demographers are able to compare two different countries birth and death rates to better understand the data for each country.

Key Terms Chapter 16

• Immigrate• Emigrate• Demography• Birth Rate• Death Rate• Natural Increase

Rate• Immigration Rate

• Emigration Rate• Net Migration Rate• Population Growth

Rate• Doubling Time• Rule Of 70• Dependency load• Population Pyramid

•Calculate the birth, death rates, and Natural Increase for all the provinces.

Province Total Births Total Deaths

Total Population

Birth Rate Death Rate Natural Increase

NFLD 4,480 4,765 509,739

PEI 1,397 1,217 142,266

NS 8,810 8,840 942,506

NB 7,044 6,743 751,755

PQ 88,400 57,600 7,907,375

ONT 141,784 94,860 13,210,667

MAN 15,990 10,443 1,235,412

SASK 14,122 9,370 1,045,622

ALB 52,937 22,006 3,720,946

BC 44,497 31,174 4,530,960

YUK 366 208 34,525

NWT 739 186 43,759

NUN 816 144 33,220

2. Which province has the highest birthrate?__________________________________________________________

3. Which Province has the lowest death Rate?__________________________________________________________

4. Which province had the highest natural increase?__________________________________________________________

5. Which province (s) had a natural decrease? __________________________________________________________

6. List several reasons why some provinces may have a higher birth rate then others.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________