Population and Settlement

         In class today I have learned about the population. Did you know that there are over seven billion people on our planet right now? It also increasing by over seventy-three million per year and 140 per minute. The really cool thing is that 90% of this population growth takes place in developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America. Another thing I learned today is that crude birth rate is the number of births per 1000 of the population and the crude death rate is the number of deaths per 100 of the population. But maybe in twenty or thirty years people will have trouble with water. An interesting thing I have learned about is that Rate of Natural Increase (RN) is produced by subtracting the death rate from birth. This gives us the annual growth rate in percentage from – for a country or region. Today I have learned a lot about the world that I call my home and I’m so happy to know more about it.