France
1. What was your high fertility rate country and what was its fertility rate?
Afghanistan with a very high rate of 6.4 children.
2. What was your low fertility rate country and what was its fertility rate?
France with a 1.8 fertility rate.
3. The initial demographic "shape" of your high fertility rate country should have been a pyramid, with high population in young age groups. Explain why high fertility rate results in a high percentage of young people in the population. How does this affect future population growth?
Because new humans are produced at such a high rate there are many more of the younger generations than older ones. The way it affects the future population depends on the behavior of the younger generations. If they produce at the same high rate as there parents that would create a future ratio that would be more balanced from young to old, if their reproduction drops significantly it would result in a large population that are older in the future.
4. Your low fertility rate country might have had a more oval-shaped curve with high population in middle age groups. This is especially exaggerated if the fertility rate is below 2.00. Explain why low fertility rate leads to lots of middle-aged people.
Because those who are at the age to produce children aren’t, so in the ten to twenty years they become the larger population because they didn’t create enough to replace them.
5. Write ten adjectives or descriptive phrases for what you might expect life, people's attitudes, conditions on the streets, etc. will be like in each of those situations. Imagine a situation with lots of middle-aged and older people in the population and write ten quick "brain-storm" descriptors for you think it would be like (Prescott, Arizona?). Then do the same for a situation with lots of children in the population.
For Afghanistan:
Crowded
Family-Oriented
Poor
Few resources
Lot’s of diapers
Stay at home mom
Helpless
Proud
Protective
Fulfilled
For France:
Anxious
Searching
Loving
Blessed
Appreciation
Simple
Safe
Organized
Career-minded
Only child
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