Demography

Demography is a study regarding population dynamics. Its size, structure, and distribution and how those indicators change over time and different matters that are influencing it. The topic is especially important in the current era where we have experienced enormous population growth that is not stopping. It brings questions and worries about the future. Preserving enough lands for agriculture that can feed that amount of people, while not destroying the environment through the agricultural process and through living spaces and pollutions created by humans. Studying geography help to explain many social occurrences. The article points out many important indicators that help to monitor the situation around the world and explain some tendencies. The analysis of it can help find solutions and avoid wrong answers. For example, there's thought to be a correlation between the level of women's education and fertility rates. However, not education itself results in lower fertility but rather other factors that are a result of education like later marriage age, more labor opportunities, higher sexual education, etc.
Personally, I find Demographic Transition to be an interesting topic as I think it's important while observing different data from regions around the world. Also, defining the population as a number of living species exceeding the carrying capacity of the world made it more clear to understand what actually overpopulation is. According to the survival of the fittest and laissez-faire theory, if we won't stop the overgrowth then overtaxed Earth will do it itself by "natural" means of lessening population.

Do you think the world is over-populated? If you think the world is over-populated, what could be done about it?
I do think the world is becoming overpopulated. If the trend becomes consistent. We may not be aware of the scale that is happening. At the beginning of the 20th century, the world population was around 1.6 billion, at the beginning of the 21st century, it was already around 6 billion people. Through the whole world history, we have not experienced such intense population growth. I think not the amount of people is a hardship itself but our practices make the situation worse. Wasting resources, polluting the planet as if there were no consequences. I think world capacity would be much higher if we least how to live more sustainable.
How will your life decisions affect your life expectancy? How will your life decisions affect your fertility rate?
A lot of our decisions have an influence on our lifespan. The way we treat our bodies if we do any physical activities, the substances that we take, our daily eating habits. As we all pursue higher education and seek a stable economic situation - most likely we won't decide for having more children than the average.
Though all the trends may change with time so we can't be sure about the outcome.

My question is, do you think that migration could be an answer to the declining population in some of the regions of the world?

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  1. 김성희 KimSeonghuiMay 15, 2020 at 12:33 AM

    I think migration is one of the ways to solve the problem in areas where the population is decreasing. For example, migrants will be able to fill the post if the population decreases and sufficient workers are not secured. And they will provide labor and make money, and the money will be used again for them to live. For example, taxes, rent, etc. Therefore, I think migration will solve the economic problem caused by population reduction.

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