Demography And Global Population Trends PDF

Chapter 11 Demography is a field in statistics that is concerned with births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which later illustrates the changing structure of human populations. In the context of political science, demography is a statistical study to determine world population that c...

Chapter 11 Demography is a field in statistics that is concerned with births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which later illustrates the changing structure of human populations. In the context of political science, demography is a statistical study to determine world population that can be used as a tool to identify certain phenomenon in geopolitics, public administration, and others. Global demography is about the trends and practices in world politics. It is the study of the issues and developments of the global population. According to Ronald Lee (2003), demography is currently in transition; the mortality rate declined followed by fertility, causing population growth rates to accelerate and then to slow down again. This demographic transition leads to low fertility, long life, and an old population. Global demography is a series of events in population growth, fertility, and mortality rate for the past years, decades, and centuries. The world is bigger than what people know about it but it is smaller than how they perceive it. There are a lot of issues and crises along the road of globalization. The economic bubble in some parts of the world, wars in different states of every region, the existence of transnational crimes, climate change, and migration are some of the trends in global demography. Since globalization has something to do with the population demand of a state, its effect on demography in terms of overpopulation must be noted. Aside from increasing birth rate, excessive movements of people from one place to another are also a factor in overpopulation. International migration is becoming more tremendous. Population is part of human demography and since the world is shrinking, this condition develops a concept of a globalized world wherein a state population transcends into global population. In the Philippine context, overpopulation did not manifest. However, some experts in local or internal migration suggest that due to the promise of a good quality of living, Filipinos from rural areas move to cities thus causing overpopulation. Internal migration may cause overpopulation in some areas of the country.