Population And Settlement

Today in Mr. Schick's class we talked about "Population And Settlement" on this subject, we talked about how there are 7 BILLION people on the earth. BILLION. we also talked about how the population of the earth is growing by 14,00 people per hour! also we learned that 90% of the growth takes place in developing countries like Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America. in class we also talked about Life Expectancy. the United States Life Expectancy is around 78.94 years of age. 76.05 for men and 81.05 for women. another thing we talked about in class was the Total Fertility Rate. The United States Fertility Rate is 2.06. it would take about 2.1 babies per woman to stay the same population, but at this rate, we are slowly decreasing. our Fertility Rate in the US is decreasing our population, but the amount of immigrants that the US takes in, Fills in the decrease and makes our population grow.