Activity 3.1 – Human Population
For my more developed country, I chose Canada and for my less developed country, I chose Afghanistan. Looking at the two demographic profiles side by side, it is clear that one country is much more developed than the othe r. If you are using only common knowledge of these two countries , it is not difficult to come to this conclusion, but with the demographic profiles, we can get a better understanding of why this is, and we can compare them to the world demographic profile. This data will be able to show us which country is closer to the world’s statistics and what that m eans. Starting at the birth rate per 1,000, we can see that Afghanistan's birth rate of 32 and fertility rate of 4.3 is significantly higher than Canada’s 10 birth rate and 1.5 fertility rate . In less developed countries this tends to be the case. Afghanistan and Canada have both experienced a decrease in fertility rates since 1990 (Population Reference Bureau, 2021) but are proje...