Population Lab

1. I choose Congo with a birth rate of 6.25 children per family and the Congo is considered an underdeveloped country in Africa.

2. I choose the country of Russia for low fertility rate with 2.29 children pre family on average.


3. In countries with high fertility rates the majority of there population is going to made of younger adults including women who are able to bear children as compared to the number of women who are leaving the child bearing age. If the majority of your population is of child bearing age then you have a large population base of individuals which will have kids and do then your population is going to continue to increase significantly. If the number of kids families are having is not reduced, or the number of women in the child bearing years is not reduced future populations will just continue to increase, especially since there is a good 20 years where women are capable of bearing children.

4. When a country becomes more developed and the fertility rate decreases the population starts to even out over the wide range of ages. Instead of the majority of people being young there is a more even distribution with people being young and middle age. Since the birth rate is lower around 2 children per couple there is a smaller base of young people who have kids which also evens out more with individuals who are passing on due to old age and natural death. New individuals being born is closer to older people passing on and better distribution of young and middle age group’s helps to even out the population and keep it at a steady rate.

5.
Middle Age:
Clean streets, well kept houses, nice cars, less violence, less drinking and driving, less sports, calm atmosphere, slower pace of community, nicer neighbors, friendlier faces.

Many children:
Chaotic at public events, dirty streets, loud and noise, fast erratic driving, more intense environment, stressful climate, more crime, general ruddiness, more active sports environment, more excitement.

Solution:
In my last graph I have come up with a solution to even out the world population. If families were allowed one child between the couple with every lucky fourth family getting two kids and at age 75 there was a mandatory passing away of the older individual the population would start to even out and at 2050 would even start to decrease in overall size. In this future scenario the population would be more evenly distributed among younger and middle age people, with the new born individuals making up a smaller number compared to the elderly.