Population and settlement continued

    Today in class we continued talking about population and settlement. We learned what a TFR is the average number of children born per women. For a population to remain the same the TFR must be 2.1 (replacement rate). If the rate is higher than 2.1 then the population rises. If it is lower the population will fall. The world TFR is 2.42 (it was 2.54 years ago and 2.47 last year). The TFR for the United States is 2.01 (it was 2.06 last year) The TFR for Nigeria is 6.89 and Japan's TFR is 1.40. We also went over the push and pull factors we discussed last class. Some pull factors are; better economic opportunity, better health services, religious freedom, and political; freedom. Some push factors are; civil war, environmental degradation, unemployment, and religious or ethnic persecution. Later in class we went on the CIA world factbook. We searched up different facts about countries and compared them to other countries.