10/24/18

Today in class we took more notes on additional slides to add onto our unit. We learned about migration and why people migrate. There are push forces and pull forces. Forces that push people out of the country is civil war, environmental degradation, unemployment or underemployment, and religious or ethnic persecution. Forces that can pull people out of the country is better economic opportunity, better health services, religious freedom, and political freedom. We also talked a bunch about Total Fertility Rate (TFR) which is the average number of children born per woman. For a population to remain the same, the TFR must be 2.1. Which means the population rises if the TFR is above 2.1 and the population can shrink if it is lower than 2.1. The world TFR is 2.42 and has been shrinking over the past years.