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 other. 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 means. 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 projected to have an increase in population, so the birth rates must outweigh the death rates enough that the population can continue to increase. The world birth rate sits at 18 per 1,000, so it is a good average between the two. Afghanistan, Canada, and the world death rates are all remarkably similar which I found quite surprising due to the different population numbers, birth rates, and life expectancies. The population growth rate of Afghanistan, 2.6, is on the higher side compared to Canada’s 0.2 and the world's being at 1.0. This is to be expected, however, considering how Afghanistan has such a high birth rate. Life expectancy between these two countries seems like quite the jump with Canada’s being at 80 for males and 84 for females and Afghanistan’s being almost 20 years less at 64 males and 67 females. In less developing countries a low life expectancy is natural due to lack of medicines. The world life expectancy is 71 for males and 75 for females, so compared to the two this is a good middle ground. The world GNI is at 17,535 which is closer to the GNI of Afghanistan, which is 2,110, than the GNI of Canada, which is 47,500. As the populations of the countries grow, their GNI should increase along with them. Looking at the overall totals for these categories, Afghanistan was closer to the world’s birthrate, life expectancy, fertility rate, and GNI than Canada was. This tells us that there are more countries in the world that are less developed than there are more developed.



 Resources:

Population Reference Bureau. (2021). 2021 world population data sheet. 2021-World-Pop Data-Sheet.pdf

 U.S. Census Bureau. (2018). International database. International Programs.   https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/idb/informationGateway.php

Mutiti, S., Mutiti, C., Manoylov, K., VandeVoort, A., & Bennett, D. (2018). Introduction to environmental science (3rd ed.). Biological Science Open Textbooks. University System of Georgia

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