Name MDC And LDC Populations Worksheet

Name Mdc And Ldc Populations Worksheet

Demography is the statistical study of human populations, especially with reference to size, density, distribution, and vital statistics (relating to births, deaths, marriages, health and disease, etc). In making population projections for different countries, demographers look at the profile of the countries’ residents. They ask: What are the ages of the people? How many are men? How many are women?

Using this information, they construct “population pyramids” (a.k.a. age histograms) like the ones the class will use in this activity. These graphs illustrate the configuration of a country’s population as shaped by 70 to 80 years of economic, political and natural events.

Procedure: You will find information about the populations of two countries; the United States and one other country picked from a list on the last page. Note you will collect this data and must upload it to the Q&A forum on the class web page BY FRIDAY.

Counties Assigned = USA and ____________________________

Log onto the web and go to International Data Base (IDB) part of the site (The url is ). Select “Demographic Overview” in the select report drop down menu on the left. Select the country from the drop down menu on the right and click submit at the bottom of the page. Use the data to answer the questions on this page below. Use your browser to go back one page and change the “select report” drop down menu to “Population Pyramid Graph”. (Make sure you still have the correct country listed.) Right click on the graph so you can copy it and then paste it at the end of this worksheet. Repeat for your second country.

Using the information from the internet for this year, fill out the tables for both of your countries.

United States Data Collection

Fill in the country name.

What is the Crude Birth Rate?

What is the Crude Death Rate?

What is the life expectancy at birth?

What is the infant mortality rate?

What is the Total Fertility Rate (TFR)?

What is the growth rate today?

What is the doubling time for the population? (You will have to work this out so look at the population lecture!) Show your math work!

Population by Age Groups Data

Still on the International Data Base (IDB) site (The url is ), select “Population By Five Year Age Groups” in the drop down. Select the country and click submit. Add up the numbers in the “both sexes population” column to find the values needed in the table below. Once you have the population size of each category, calculate the % of the population made up by that age group using the formula: (Population size for the age group / total population size) x 100 = % of population. Fill in the table below and repeat for your second country.

Age Group Population size for both sexes % of population
0-14
Pre-Reproductive
15-44 Reproductive
45-80+ Post-Reproductive
TOTAL POPULATION SIZE

Upload ALL the numbers (the data on page one and page two for the worksheet) you found for your second country to the Q & A forum.

You do not need to upload the numbers for the USA. Once you have looked at all of the data collected by the class, answer the following questions in discussion form using the Q&A forum.

Discussion Questions

  1. Which 2 countries have the fastest growth rate? Are they MDC’s or LDC’s?
  2. Which 2 countries have the slowest growth rate? Are they MDC’s or LDC’s?
  3. Which 2 countries have the highest TFR? Are they MDC’s or LDC’s?
  4. Which 2 countries have the lowest TFR? Are they MDC’s or LDC’s?
  5. Which 2 countries have the largest percentage of pre-reproductive individuals within their population? Are they MDC’s or LDC’s?
  6. Which 2 countries have the largest percentage of post-reproductive individuals within their population? Are they MDC’s or LDC’s?
  7. Which 2 countries have the longest life expectancy? Are they MDC’s or LDC’s?
  8. Which 2 countries have the highest infant mortality rate? Are they MDC’s or LDC’s?
  9. What is the relation between the following and population growth rate: a) Infant mortality rate. b) % Pre-reproductive individuals. c) % Post reproductive individuals. d) TFR. e) MDC’s and LDC’s.

Turn in this worksheet by the due date with all required data and answers.

References

  • United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (2022). World Population Prospects 2022. Retrieved from https://population.un.org/wpp/
  • U.S. Census Bureau. (2023). International Data Base. Retrieved from https://www.census.gov/data/data-tools/international-data-base.html
  • World Bank. (2023). World Development Indicators. Retrieved from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator
  • United Nations. (2020). World Population Ageing 2020 Highlights. Retrieved from https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/ageing/UN_WPA_2020_Highlights.pdf
  • Population Reference Bureau. (2023). The World’s Women. Retrieved from https://www.prb.org/resources/the-worlds-women/
  • United Nations Population Fund. (2021). State of the World Population. Retrieved from https://www.unfpa.org/publications/state-world-population
  • World Health Organization. (2023). Global Health Observatory Data. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/data/gho
  • World Bank. (2022). Fertility Rate Data. Retrieved from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2023). Infant Mortality. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/infant-mortality.htm
  • Development Data Group, The World Bank. (2021). Population Data. Retrieved from https://databank.worldbank.org/source/population-data

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