Wednesday, November 1, 2017

the water

So today was the day that I brought in water for the whole entire class. before my mom dropped me off at school we went to shop right and bought three cases of half bottles of water, 3 cases for 5 dollars which is a pretty good deal. When I walked into class everybody was like " oh my god ben" they were so surprised that I had bought so much water which wasn't really expensive, anyway when we started class we went over what infant mortality rate was, it is the number of infants who die before their first birthday. We also learned what TFR is, it is the total fertility rate, this is the average amount of children born per woman. In order for the rate to increase it needs to be higher than 2.1 but for it to decrease it needs to be lower than 2.1, this is because 2.1 is the TFR for a countries population to remain the same. The worlds average is 2.42 which decreased from 2.54. That is a big difference between a population. So after that Mr Schick told us to go onto CIA.gov because we were going to answer some questions using that website. the first question was what is the USA population and we found out it was 326,625,791. We also learned using this website that Nigeria is the African country with the biggest population, another fact we learned was that Mexico's population was 82.7% catholic, that is more than Canada and the USA. Another fact we looked up was what was the infant mortality rate for the US, and we found out it was 5.8 out of 1000, yet though this may seem high there is some countries with a 50 out of 1000 or even higher. This can severely affect a countries RNI( rate of natural increase). We also learned that Japan has 1.4 TFR ( total fertility rate) which is very low, this is because more women are going to school and starting work in more jobs that were or used tube accustomed to men like the military or construction. This means women aren't having as many children as they used to, this can also affect the TFR along with the infant mortality rate by lowering. it severely because not as many children could be dying per 1000 people because there isn't  a lot of children being born. But yet this can negatively impact the TFR because not many children are being born so the population isn't increasing by a decent amount for it to remain the same as before. Along side from this stuff we learned about population today was a pretty long day I'm just glad I get to go home soon.

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