Siwei (Jason) Xie
Geography 4
Population Analysis of France and Syria Firstly, France has a low birth rate. Because according to the population pyramid of France, the bottom of the pyramid is shrinking compared to its middle. Also, from the numbers on the diagram, the population between ages 0-4 is about 2 million, it is considerably small given that the total population of France is 64.1 million. Secondly, France has a very high life expectancy rate. From the population pyramid, it shows clearly that the top of the pyramid is not pointy, which indicates that there are certain amount of the population that are included in that age region. Furthermore, according to the data table, there are 18% of the whole population that are 65 years old
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France currently is at the fourth stage of the demographic transition graph, which means that it is well urbanized, literacy of France population is relatively high, and the medication level is high as well. According to the CIA website’s factbook, 100% of the France population have the access to the sanitation facilities, and there are 6.4 beds per 1000 people. However, Syria is only at the second stage of the graph, so the medical level in Syria is far lower than France. For instance, instead of 100% of the population, Syria has only 92% of its population that are able to access to the sanitation facilities; furthermore, the hospital bed density is only 1.5 beds for 1000 people. As for the education or the literacy in the two countries, France has the school life expectancy of 16 years, but Syria only has 12 years, so as the result, there are only 85% of the total population in Syria can write and read. But in France, this number is over 99%. (CIA …show more content…
For instance, the quality of people’s life is totally different between these two countries. In France, there are over 460 airports and roadways that are over 1,000,000 miles long in total, which tremendously increases the accessibility to places for French people. In contrast, Syria only has 90 airports (63 of them are even unpaved), and the total length of roadways is less than 70,000 miles. (CIA Factbook) The occupational pattern between the two countries is similar, the majority of the labor force is in service; however, the unemployment rate in France is 9.7% while surprisingly in Syria it is 33%. In conclusion, France has much better social and economic conditions than
The French had control of Syria and Lebanon. France had a direct rule, meaning that they sent officials and their army to govern their mandates. The Druze revolt caused the French to separate Lebanon into a country of their own. They appointed the government as people of different religious groups, Christian, Shi’a Muslims, and Sunni Muslims. During World War Two (WWII), Syria and Lebanon tried to gain independence. In 1946 Syria and Lebanon were free. During the time of the French Mandates they made many improvements towards the roads, education, agriculture, and health; which laid the groundwork for modern Syria and
Disregarding the population number of the Belgium and Canada, their population pyramids are similar. In both countries and genders, the majority of the population are aged 50 - 54, with a lower percentage of younger people. This constrictive population pyramid shows that Canada and Belgium have declining birth rates.
The major demographic changes in the Middle East and North Africa have been the massive increase in population, and urbanization which has seen the emergence of many large cities throughout the region. The reasons for this have been because of better health care, greater mobility of the population, economic opportunities in the cities and political changes.
The freedom in Syria made citizens mad because there wasn't enough of it. So the people of Syria started to protest to gain more freedom. The government wanted this to stop so they used violence so they can stop for good. All that caused was more angry citizens and started to use violence as well. This is one of the fueling of the violence in Syria.
Life expectancy in many parts of the world has increased since 1800 (Life Expectancy by Age, n.d). To understand these changes we can study the demographic transition, the changes in birth and death rates over extended periods of time. The industrial revolution has significantly improved the conditions of humans and in 20th century death rates declined but the birth rates remained unchanged. In many of today’s developed countries both rates have declined; however, in developing countries, while death rates have declined due the improvements of living conditions, the birth rates are still high which has caused a record high population growth (HAUB & GRIBBLE, 2011).
Compared to other countries, France’s economy is the fourth largest in the world. France is a very industrialized nation, yet it has kept some of the cultural characteristics that contribute to its old-world charm. The economy is “exceptionally diversified” (“Economic Structure”, 1). It produces everything from aircrafts to pharmaceuticals.
My original hypothesis is that low fertility in a country will cause social problems. Economies will shrink. Cities may also shrink in size. Nations will become poorer. Taxes for the fewer working people could be so high as to cause major discontent and further help to expand an underground economy. Resentment against pensioners could grow or pensions could be decreased or even eliminated forcing older people to continue working until their health no longer allowed them to continue. Already, many older people have chosen to stay in the work force due to having insufficient pension funds.
There were rises and falls in birth rates starting in the late 1920’s. “The birth rates were low in the late 20’s and early 30’s, then became very high in the 1940’s through the early 1960’s. The birth rate growth was only then modest in the late 1970’s through the early 1990’s” (Lerman & Schmidt, n.d.). It was not uncommon for large families in the earlier years from the 1940’s through to the 1960’s. The increase of children could have been cau...
As Joseph Campbell once said, “a hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” It is difficult at times for people to become completely selfless. It takes courage to face one's obstacles and put another above one’s self to make that person's life simply better. In the novel Winter’s Bone Daniel Woodrell portrays Ree Dolly, a seventeen year old protagonist, as the true definition of a hero. Ree exemplifies Campbell's definition of a hero in the areas of a brother battle, entering the belly of the whale, ultimate boon, and the rescue from without.
The French ruled oppressively, splitting the country into regions along ethnic and religious lines in order to divide and conquer. It wasn’t until World War II did Syria gain independence. Syria was granted de jure independence in 1941. Then, in 1943, President Shukri al-Kuwatly took power. However, the last French solider did not leave until 1946.
While many countries such as Japan and Germany worry about a falling birth rate and an aging population other countries such as China and India are trying to increase the life expectancy of their people and reduce birth rates.
Fertility is one of the main issues discussed when talking about the demography of the United States. The U.S. economy plays a rather large role in the rising and falling patterns of the country’s fertility rate. In many past occurrences of economic hardship in the country fertility levels had decreased. One of the main reasons for that being in times of financial struggle, men and women are less likely to want to have children. Being able to support a family is already a difficult task but when people are getting laid off from jobs, unemployment rates are increasing, and the economy is struggling many people can barely afford to buy necessities for themselves never mind for an entire family. An extended decrease in fertility levels could have hugely negative effects on the country’s demography. Lower fertility rates mean less babies being born which in turn decreases the younger age population while the aging population slowly increases. This is one of the main issues with low fertility because it does not evenly decrease the country’s population.
Macedonia has a birth rate of 11.72/1000 population. Its death rate compares as barely lower, at 9.00/1000 population. The annual growth rate of Macedonia happens to be 0.22%. The people of Macedonia have a nice long life expectancy of seventy-five years. Almost all of these people can read, with a literacy rate of 96.1 percent. This cause's Macedonia's population to seem to be evening out on a population pyramid, predicting less population by 2053.
Singapore currently has a very low birth rate. Fertility began falling from the 1960s and 70s (Saw, 1980 and Chen, 1977) from a high Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 5.76 in 1960 to a low 1.29 in 2012 and the lowest recorded in 2010 at only 1.15 (Department of Statistics, 2013). This is much lower than the replacement rate of 2.1, which is a worrying concern for the nation. It is a pressing issue which has led to many changes in policies with respect to other issues related to it, such as immigration and ageing population.