Distribution, Density and Growth

Chapter-2 Distribution, Density andGrowthThe people of a country are its real wealth. Itis they, who are the actual resources and makeuse of the country s other resources and decideits policies. Ultimately a country is known byits is important to know how many womenand men a country has, how many children areborn each year, how many people die and how?Whether they live in cities or villages, can theyread or write and what work do they do? Theseare what you will study about in this world at the beginning of 21st centuryrecorded the presence of over 6 billionpopulation. We shall discuss the patterns oftheir distribution and Density do people prefer to live in certainregions and not in others?The population of the world is unevenlydistributed. The remark of George B. Cresseyabout the population of Asia that Asia has manyplaces where people are few and few place wherepeople are very many is true about the patternof population distribution of the world also.

Population Density of Population = Area For example, area of Region X is 100 sq km and the population is 1,50,000 persons. The density of population is calculated as: 1,50,000 Density 100 = = 1,500 person/sq km What does this tell you about Region X? Look at Table 2.1 and observe that Asia has the highest density of population. Discuss

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