Cengage Advantage Books: Sustaining the Earth 10th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 6

List three factors that account for the rapid increase in the world's human population during the last 200 years. Explain how this growth is distributed geographically. How many people are likely to be living on earth in 2050? List three factors that affect the population change of any area and write an equation showing how they are related. Distinguish between crude birth rate and crude death rate. What five countries had the largest population numbers in 2010?