Population structure of humanity

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Population structure of humanity.
Sheikh Alimuddin
LA1-201B

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What does population structure mean?
• Population structure means the 'make up' or composition
of a population. Looking at the population structure of a
place shows how the population is divided up between
males and females of different age groups.

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What is population structure and what are its
components?
• Population structure is defined by the organization of
genetic variation and is driven by the combined effects of
evolutionary processes that include recombination,
mutation, genetic drift, demographic history, and natural
selection.

4.

What is population structure in sociology?
• 16. The age structure of the population refers to the
proportion of persons in different age groups relative to
the total population.

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What causes population structure?
• Population structure commonly arises from physical
separation by distance or barriers, like mountains and
rivers, followed by genetic drift. Other causes include
gene flow from migrations, population bottlenecks and
expansions, founder effects, evolutionary pressure,
random chance, and (in humans) cultural factors.

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What are the population characteristics?
• Demography is the study of a population, the total number
of people or organisms in a given area. Understanding
how population characteristics such as size, spatial
distribution, age structure, or the birth and death rates
change over time can help scientists or governments
make decisions.

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What is the definition of age structure?
• age structure: The composition of a population in terms of
the proportions of individuals of different ages;
represented as a bar graph with younger ages at the
bottom and males and females on either side.

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What are the accept considered in the structure of
population?
• Population can be classified as per the sex, age, rural,
urban, literacy, productive population/active population,
dependent population,etc.
• The sub groups and their relationship with one another is
studied in the structure of population.

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Why is it important to consider the age structure of a
human population?
• The age structure of a population is an important factor in
population dynamics. Age structure is the proportion of a
population at different age ranges.
• Age structure allows better prediction of population
growth, plus the ability to associate this growth with the
level of economic development in the region.

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What is the age structure of population?
• The age structure of a population is the distribution of
people of various ages.
• It is a useful tool for social scientists, public health and
health care experts, policy analysts, and policy-makers
because it illustrates population trends like rates of births
and deaths.

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What are 3 characteristics of a population?
• Three characteristics of population are population density,
fecundity or birth rate and mortality or death rate.
Characteristics of specific populations can be measured,
evaluated and tracked for comparison purposes or to
measure a population's success or decline.

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What are the 3 key features of a population?
• In ecology, a population consists of all the organisms of a
given species that live in a particular area. ...
• Two important measures of a population are population
size, the number of individuals, and population density,
the number of individuals per unit area or volume.

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What are the factors that affect the population
growth?
• Population growth is based on four fundamental factors:
birth rate, death rate, immigration, and emigration.

14.

Is human population growth exponential or logistic?
• The world's human population is growing at an
exponential rate. Humans have increased the world's
carrying capacity through migration, agriculture, medical
advances, and communication.

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What four characteristics are used to describe a
population?
• There are following characteristics . List four
characteristics that are used to describe a population.
Geographic Range, Density and Distribution, Growth
Rate, Age Structure.

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What are the four factors that affect population
dynamics?
• It may be that synthesis in population dynamics has been
slow to emerge because population change is more
complicated than it first appears. After all, population
change is determined ultimately by only four factors: birth,
death, immigration, and emigration.