Population Handouts

Use pages 186 - 193 and the glossary in your text to gain the definitions of each of these words.

Term / Definition
Immigrate
Emigrate
Demography
Birth rate
Death rate
Natural increase rate
Immigration rate
Emigration rate
Population growth rate
Doubling time
Rule of 70
Dependency load
Population pyramid

Complete the following questions from your text:

Pg 194:

1b, 2b, 3,5b, 5c, 6a-b, 7c

Demographic Vocabulary

Match the terms listed here to the definitions

baby boom birth rate child mortality rate death rate demography doubling time

emigrateemigration rate immigrant immigrate immigration rate

infant mortality rate life expectancy natural increase rate net migration rate

population density population distribution population growth rate

population pyramid pull factor push factor refugee

1. ______- study of population numbers, distribution,trends, and issues

2. ______- yearly number of live births per 1000

3. ______- yearly number of deaths per 1000

4. ______- difference between the birth rate and death rate

______= Birth Rate – Death Rate

5. ______- yearly number of deaths under 1 year old per 1000

6. ______- yearly number of deaths between 1 and 8 years

old per 1000

7. ______- to enter a country other than your own native

country to live there permanently

8. ______- number of new Canadians who have immigrated

here from another country per 1000 of Canada’s population

9. ______- a person who moves to a new country

10. ______- one of the categories of immigrants to Canada

11. ______- to leave your country of origin to live elsewhere

12. ______- yearly number of people per 1000 who move

elsewhere

13. ______- difference between people moving to a country

and people moving elsewhere from that same country

______= Immigration Rate – Emigration Rate

14. ______- something that makes people want to leave their

country and move to another (e.g., discrimination, unemployment)

15. ______- something that attracts people to another country

(e.g., freedom of speech, educational opportunities)

16. ______- measurement that combines both natural

increase and net migration to calculate the overall growth of a country’s population

Population Growth Rate = ______+ ______

17. ______- average lifespan of a population

18. ______- the large rise in the birth rate in the late 1940s

and 1950s experienced by many countries in Europe and North America

19. ______- how long it would take for a country’s

population to double at that country’s current rate of population growth

20. ______- graph that depicts population distribution by age/sex

21. ______- figure calculated by dividing the population of a

region by that region’s area

22. ______- pattern showing where people live in an area

Demography

•Demography is the study of populations. It helps answer questions such as

•Why are more schools closing than opening?

•Why will you likely have to work more years than your parents before retiring?

•Why are old rock-and-roll groups, such as the Rolling Stones, still so popular?

Population Pyramids

•The best way to compare populations of different countries is through population pyramids.

•It is a “paired horizontal bar graph” with females on the right and males on the left.

•Both sides show the percentages of people in each age group.

•Putting the two sides together can allow you to easily compare a country’s population for different years (or to compare different countries).

•The dependency load is the part of the population that needs to be supported. It is made
up of two components: the 0–14 age group and the 65+ age group.

This is how Canada’s population was divided in 1961. How old would a person born during the Depression (1930s) be at this time? ______(age range)

Were your parents baby boomers? ______

How old would someone in the baby boomer generation be today? ______(age range)

There is a slight difference between the death rate of men and women. Which gender survives better into old age? ______

Use the 1996 Population Pyramid to answer these questions:

  1. Write the details of your age group and sex within the Canadian population.

Age group______sex______percentage ______

  1. What single age group and sex represents the largest percentage of Canada’s population?

Age group______sex______percentage ______

  1. Circle the 10-year age group that contains the largest percentage of the population.

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  1. What percentage of Canada’s population is male and what percentage is female? (add he percentages for each sex.)

Males______Females______

  1. Write the percentages for males and females age 65 and over.

Males______Females______

  1. Explain why the 1996 population pyramid has a narrower base than that of the 1961 pyramid. ______

______

  1. a) populations are frequently divided into two categories: people who are of working-age (15-64) and people who are note of working age (under 15; 65 and over). Using the data on the table, give the percentage ofr each category in 1996:

Working age:______Dependancy Load:______

b) List ways the working-age population contributes to Canada’s economic growth.

______

______

c) Do you think the proportion of the population who are not of working age will change in the future? If so, which part (under 15, or 65 and over?) Explain.

______

______

Canada’s population is aging. This means that the median (or middle age) of Canadains is getting older.

Demographics has become one of the hot topics of this decade. Demographers study population statistics and trends as you are doing in this activity. Among other things, organizations depend on the work of demographers to help plan the location of businesses; the number of schools, hospitals and retirement homes; the building of houses, condominums, and apartments; and the designing and marketing of products.

What does Canada’s aging population mean for Canadian society? Become a demographer, and predict what might happen as a larger percentage of Canadians is over 65 years old.

Part of Canadian Society / How Canada’s aging population will affect it.
Health Care
Housing
The people able to work (the work force)
Job opportunities for younger Canadians
The sorts of things Canadians will want to buy

Create population pyramids using the data below For Practice.

Canada 2011

Age groups
Male (% of Population) / Female (% of population)
0 to 4 years / 2.9 / 2.7
5 to 9 years / 2.8 / 2.6
10 to 14 years / 2.9 / 2.8
15 to 24 years / 6.6 / 6.4
25 to 34 years / 6.4 / 6.6
35 to 44 years / 6.6 / 6.8
45 to 54 years / 7.8 / 8.1
55 to 64 years / 6.4 / 6.7
65 to 74 years / 3.8 / 4.2
75 to 84 years / 2.1 / 2.7
85 years and over / 0.6 / 1.3

POPULATION PATTERNS

•Population density is the number of people within a measured land area

•Population distribution is the pattern of population in a given land area

•Canada has a population distribution that follows our southern border for a number of reasons

• Historically areas of easy access by water

• Geographically the best farmland

• Temperate climate

• Most immigrants settle in well-established cities that aid cultural integration, provide employment and a greater variety of services.

Population Graphing Assignment

  1. Using the statistics in the chart below, create a multiple line graph with 2 vertical axis to display the data

Canada / 1951 / 1956 / 1961 / 1966 / 1971 / 1976 / 1981 / 1986 / 1991 / 1996 / 2001 / 2006 / 2011 / 2016
Population (millions) / 14.0 / 16.1 / 18.2 / 20.0 / 21.6 / 23.0 / 24.3 / 25.3 / 27.3 / 28.9 / 31.0 / 32.5 / 34.3 / 36.3
Growth Rate % / 14.8 / 13.4 / 9.7 / 7.8 / 6.6 / 5.9 / 4.0 / 7.9 / 5.7 / 7.2 / 4.8 / 5.5 / 5.8

  1. Analyse the information presented in the graph in a summary that answers the following questions:
  2. Describe what has happened to Canada’s population since 1951
  3. Escribe what has happened to Canada’s growth rate since 1951.
  4. Why do you presume the growth rate was so high from 1951-1961?
  5. Why do you think the growth rate has fallen since this time?
  6. What may eventually happen to Canada’s population if the growth rate continues its decline? Why might this be a problem? How might Canada stop this from happening?
  7. Create population pyramids using the data below.

1971 / Male / Female / 2016 / Male / Female
0 to 4 / 4.27 / 4.08 / 0 to 4 / 5.6 / 5.2
5 to 9 / 5.27 / 5.04 / 5 to 9 / 5.6 / 5.3
10 to 14 / 5.41 / 5.18 / 10 to 14 / 5.4 / 5.0
15 to 19 / 5.01 / 4.85 / 15 to 19 / 5.9 / 5.5
20 to 24 / 4.54 / 4.50 / 20 to 24 / 7.0 / 6.6
25 to 29 / 3.83 / 3.66 / 25 to 29 / 7.0 / 6.8
30 to 34 / 3.13 / 2.99 / 30 to 34 / 7.0 / 6.9
35 to 39 / 3.02 / 2.84 / 35 to 39 / 6.8 / 6.7
40 to 44 / 2.99 / 2.86 / 40 to 44 / 6.5 / 6.4
45 to 49 / 2.84 / 2.86 / 45 to 49 / 6.7 / 6.6
50 to 54 / 2.40 / 2.45 / 50 to 54 / 7.6 / 7.4
55 to 59 / 2.18 / 2.21 / 55 to 59 / 7.4 / 7.3
60 to 64 / 1.76 / 1.82 / 60 to 64 / 6.3 / 6.4
65 to 69 / 1.36 / 1.49 / 65 to 69 / 5.4 / 5.5
70 to 74 / 0.95 / 1.16 / 70 to 74 / 3.8 / 4.1
75 to 79 / 0.64 / 0.85 / 75 to 79 / 2.6 / 3.1
80 to 84 / 0.39 / 0.54 / 80 to 84 / 1.8 / 2.3
85 to 89 / 0.19 / 0.27 / 85 to 89 / 1.1 / 1.7
90 and older / 0.06 / 0.11 / 90 and older / 0.5 / 1.1

  1. Answer the following questions about your population pyramids:
  2. Explain the “bulge in the younger ages 9-25, of the 1971 pyramid. (I.e. why are they? When were they born? Why are there so many of them?)
  3. What has happened to the birth rate since this time? (I.e. have the “baby-boomers” had as many children as their parents did?) How can you tell by looking at the pyramids? Why do you think they have changed?
  4. What has happened to life expectancies since 1971? How can you tell by looking at the pyramids/ why do you think they have changed?
  5. Many of the baby boomers are beginning to retire. How might this be good and how might it be bad in 2016?
  6. Once the baby boomers begin to pass on, what may happen to Canada’s population? Why are two ways this might be avoided?
  7. Complete the data chart below to find out the percentage change in population for Canada’s provinces and territories.

Absolute Change = Population of 2016 – Population 1996

Percent Change = Absolute Change / Population 1996

NOTE: if the population increased from 1996 – 2016 then the % change is positive, if the population decreased from 1996 – 2016 the % change is negative.

Province/Territory / Population 2016 / Population 1996 / Absolute Change / Percentage Change
Canada / 36,048,521 / 27 296 859
NFLD / 528,336 / 568 474
PEI / 146,933 / 129 765
NS / 945,824 / 909 282
NB / 754,735 / 738 133
QUE / 8,294,656 / 7 138 795
ON / 13,873,933 / 10 753 573
MAN / 1,303,893 / 1 113 898
SASK / 1,142,570 / 990 237
ALTA / 4,231,959 / 2 696 826
BC / 4,707,021 / 3 724 500
Yukon / 37,193 / 30 766
NWT / 44,291 / 64 402
Nunavut / 37,174 / 21 000
  1. a) Name the proving/territories that have experienced percentage population change above the national average (Canada).

b) Name the provinces and territories that have experienced percentage population change below the national average (Canada).

c) Provide brief explanations for the above variations as they compare to the national average.

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