Assignment 9

Given your observations on the differences in the demographic variables considered in the previous assignments, work in groups of four or five students to develop a hypothesis to consider which nations will exhibit positive long-term growth rates and which ones will have negative long-term growth rates. Working within DemographyLab, for each nation, click the Run button to simulate 100 years of population change and look at the Stats view of the output. The last three statistics are all measures of long-term population growth rates. How well do your rankings agree with the rankings of the actual measures of growth rate? Compare and contrast the summary statistics for the different nations.


1 .		Pick one of the nations that exhibits a positive long-term growth rate. Should this nation take measures to limit its population size? If so what should those measures be? For example, should a nation limit immigration?

2 .		Pick one of the nations that exhibits a positive long-term growth rate. Should this nation use either voluntary or mandatory contraceptive programs to limit population size?

3 .		Pick one of the nations that exhibits a positive long-term growth rate. Identify environmental, health, and other quality-of-life issues that may arise as a result of long-term population growth.

4 .		Pick one of the nations that exhibits a positive long-term growth rate. Prepare a plan that could be used reduce population growth. If you were the leader of this country, how would you justify your plan to the citizens of your country?