his Geography A-Level resource focuses on Hans Rosling's Population Growth Blocks, a visual and engaging tool for understanding global population trends. The document explains how Rosling's method illustrates population growth, distribution, and future projections using simple blocks to represent d...
Hans Rosling Population Growth Blocks
This is the current Now we can see that over
population of the world 45 years without
with 1 block representing 1 increasing the fertility rate
billion people. This shows we have increased the
the age of the population population by an extra 3
as well with 2 billion billion people.
people t the age of 0-15
and another 2 billion at the
age of 15-30.
It is then expected that the 2 We also expect health care
billion people in the age to improve in the future and
category 15-30 will each therefore we have added an
have one child for every extra billion on top for
person as the world fertility people living longer. This is
rate is around 2.2. This why even though fertility
means that there is another rates are predicted not to
2 billion people created in increase the world
the 0-15 category, while the population is predicted to
age groups all get older, and increase from 7 to 11 billion
the oldest ones die off. in the century.
Whilst keeping the fertility
rate the same at around 2 we
can see that after another 15
years there is another billion
people as the people from
the time where there was a
higher population have
grown older. Whilst there is
only the oldest generation of
people that only has 1 billion
people
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