4º CC.SS. - Population

1.- Central African Republic or Japan:
a) More than 55% of the population lives in rural areas:
b) The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate is less than 0.1%:
c) 4% of the population is 65 years or older:
d) 21.2% of the population is 65 years or older:
e) About half the adult population of the country is illiterate:
f) The infant mortality rate is 105‰:
g) 78.7% of the population lives in urban areas:
h) 1.41 children per woman:
i) The birth rate is 35.6‰:
j) 21.8% of children under the age of 5 years has underweight:


2.- Calculate the birth rate, the death rate, the population growth rate and the population density. Comment them.
Population: 38 483 957
Area: 312 679 square kilometres
Life births: 369 600
Deaths: 387 300

3.- Urban (U) or rural (R) settlements?
• Industry and the services prevail in these settlements:
• The agriculture, fishing, farming are the activities most important:
• Low number of inhabitants and a little dense population:
• High number of inhabitants and a dense population:
• There are small streets and short buildings with one floor:
• Its size is very big.
• There aren’t a lot of services:
• Its size is small:
• There are a lot of services such as Hospitals, High School, road links, supermarkets…:
• There are big streets and more wide avenues and high buildings, sometimes there are skyscrapers: