The Global Village

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The Global Village
rachelfarrell_at_pdst.ie
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• According to Harter (2,000)
• Shrinking the population of the world at the end
  of the 20th C to 100 people would look like the
  following.

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100 people in the world

• 57 Aisian
• 21 European
• 14 Western Hemisphere
• 8 African

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YouTube clips

• http//ngm.nationalgeographic.com/7-billion
  (7billion video)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v4B2xOvKFFz4 (most
  typical person)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vaSpUWt_dpAo (why
  they are doing a series on population)

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100 people in the world

• 52 Male
• 48 Female
• 70 non white
• 30 white

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100people in the world

• 70 non Christian
• 30 Christian

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100 people in the world

• 89 Hetrosexual
• 11 Homosexual

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100 people in the world

• 6 people would possess 60 of the entire worlds
  wealth.
• All 6 people would be from the US

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100 people in the world

• 80 would live in substandard housing

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100 people in the world

• 70 would be unable to read

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100 people in the world

• 50 would suffer from malnutrition

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International Interactive Resources
Freerice.com
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100 people in the world

• 1 would be near death
• 1 would be near birth
• 1 would have a college education
• 1 would own a computer

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YouTube clips

• http//ngm.nationalgeographic.com/7-billion
  (7billion video)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v4B2xOvKFFz4 (most
  typical person)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vaSpUWt_dpAo (why
  they are doing a series on population)

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Population
Powerpoint produced by Rachel Farrell (PDST)
Aoife Healion (SHS, Tullamore) Sources of
information SEC Marking Schemes, newspaper
articles documentaries
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Syllabus

• Economics of Population
• Global and national population, size, composition
  and trends.
• Over, under and optimum population.
• The labour force and employment.
• The importance of population, and its influence
  on economic development and growth.

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Exam Questions OLStudyclix

• Short
• 2009 Q 2
• 2006 Q 2

• Long
• 2011 Q 8 (a) (b)
• 2010 Q 7 (a)
• 2009 Q 6
• 2008 Q 3 (c)
• 2007 Q 6
• 2005 Q 6 (a) (c)
• 2003 Q 7
• 2002 Q 7 (c)
• 2001 Q 7 (c)

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Exam Questions HL

• Short
• 2010 Q 9
• 2006 Q 1
• 2001 Q 9

• Long
• 2011 Q 8 (a) (b) (c)
• 2010 Q 8 (b) (c)
• 2008 Q 7 (c)
• 2005 Q 8 (a)
• 2003 Q 7 (c)

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Complete skimming an article exercise on pdst
website
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Advantages of Immigrationplacemat exercise
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The 2011 census of Ireland highlighted that
Complete scanning exercise on pdst website
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Complete scanning exercise on pdst website
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Population Pyramid
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_pyramid
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Population Pyramid

• Is a diagram that shows the distribution by age
  of the population of a country.
• In Ireland in 2006 the median age is approx 35
  years.
• Irelands population is becoming older.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_pyramid

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Thomas Robert Malthus Classical
Economist English (1776-1834) The Principles of
Population

• Applied the Law of Diminishing Returns to Land
• Best land taken up first, then next best, then
  inferior.
• At each stage the amount of food is less than
  before.

• Theory of
• Population Food
• Population grows geometrically (2,4,8,16,32).
• Food grows arithmetically (1,2,3,4,5,6).
• If population not kept in check famine disease
  would result.
• SOL did not fall in 19th C but his ideas were
  more relevant in the population explosion of the
  20th C

Iron Law of Wages An increase in wage above
subsistence level increase in population
increase in supply of labour decrease in wage
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World population
7,000,000,000
7 billion
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