GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN POPULATION

 The word population comes from the Latin word Populus meaning people. Population or human population refers to the total number of people found in a given area at a specified time.

What is a population size?

Population size refers to the total number of people in the country.

This may change over time due to dynamic components like birth, death, and migration. Population size is obtained through censuses.

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POPULATION

un even distribution

It is unevenly distributed over the surface such that some areas have low density other have medium density and some areas have high-density population other areas have no population at all.

Population is dynamic

Population is dynamic in the sense that it is migratory as people move from one place to another place either permanently or temporarily depending on the prevailing conditions.

The population has an age-sex structure

This refers to the composition or proportion of the population in terms of sex, age, and occupation.

variation of development across population

The population is characterized by variation in the level of development and technology, Such as Japan, America, and France while other countries are less developed or poor due to the use of low technology like Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique.

it is faced by various problems

The population usually faces problems like diseases such as HIV-AIDS, Environment calamities like famine and flood as well as earthquakes.

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