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Activity 3.1 – Human Population

Looking at the metrics for a more developed country provided by the “2024 World Population Data Sheet” a developed country has an average of 9 births per thousand and a GNI per Capita of 61,752 as shown in figure 1 page 2. South Korea matches that description with a 5 birth rate per thousand and Gross national income of 55,040. South Korea is right below the average of more developed countries and we can figure out why when we look at South Korea's population growth (its natural rate of increase) which is at -0.2, solidified by a fertility rate of .07 kids per 1 household. Looking at the demographic transition model provided by “MUTITI et al 2 population ecology” we can see South Korea has many similarities described as what is called Stage III the mature/industrial stage “many women join the workforce …This leads to a drop in birth rates and smaller family sizes. Death rates also continue to drop during Stage III as medicine, sanitation and food security continue to improve.” (MUTITI, 19). However in South Korea's case women are now working, making less babies but not enough as South Koreas are now living at a much higher rate where they are now facing an aging population shown by these statistics. Where men and women are living out to an average of 80 years old all of these struggles can be seen in SC’s 5 per thousand birth rate to 7 per thousand death rate. Expanding on this “Factors that increase people’s desire to have children are known as pronatalist pressures” (MUTITI, 21) which these couples in South Korea seem to not feel. On the exact opposite spectrum the “2024 World Population Data Sheet” would describe Bangladesh as a least developed country. A least developed country has an average of 31 births per population and an average of 4,198 GNI, shown in figure 1 page 2. Bangladesh averages a stunning 20 births per thousand and only 5 thousand per thousand death rate. Bangladesh averages South Koreans birth rate in its death rate from a fertility rate of 2.2. Bangladesh's rate of increasing population is about 1.5 currently but loses about 10 years compared to the superior healthcare of South Korea as men live to 73 and women to 76 so about a 10 year difference. However, where we can see Bangladesh as a least developed country is its abysmal 9,340 gross national income, more than 30 thousand less than South Korea. “MUTITI et al 2 population ecology” links a Stage I is the preindustrial stage with “have higher TFR but this decreases considerably as countries move to the industrialized and post-industrial stages” (MUTITI, 21). This information explains how Bangladesh can have such a high birth rate compared to South Koreas as the two are very much worlds apart industrially. Work Cited Population Reference Bureau. (2024). 2024 world population data sheet. https://2024-wpds.prb.org/data-sheet-download/ Wilson, D. (2022a). Chapter 2: Population Ecology and Human Demography. In Introduction To Environmental (1st ed., pp. 1–22). essay, Kendall Hunt Publishing. (MLA 7) Mutiti, S., Mutiti, C., Manoylov, K., VandeVoort, A., & Bennett, D. (2018). Introduction to environmental science (3rd ed.). Biological Science Open Textbooks. University System of Georgia. I also did not use AI and that youtube video you linked when putting this together

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