Population Activity Number I

 

Questions 1-11

Website http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_lif_exp_at_bir_tot_pop-life-expectancy-birth-total-population

 

  1. What is the value of statistics on life expectancy?

  2. Where are the highest life expectancies?

  3. Where are the lowest life expectancies?

  4. Where is HIV/AIDS having the highest impact?

  5. How are sex differences affecting life expectancies? Females and Males

  6. What are the anticipated changes in the life expectancies for people in the United States?

 

  1. What general observations can you make about the countries with the highest life expectances?

 

 

 

 

  1. What general observations can you make about the countries with the lowest life expectance?

 

 

 

  1. What countries surprise you will their results and why?

  2. What factors do you believe play the greatest role in determining the overall life expectancies for countries around the world?

 

 

  1. What is mortality? (Check your text for this information)

  2. What is the difference between mortality (click this link) and mortality per capita (click this link for per capita)?

 

 

 

  1. Which of these statistics is the most useful in analyzing a population and why?

  2. What is the limitation of the information found in this section?

  3. What is natality? (See Text)

  4. What is the relationship between mortality and natality and the growth rate of a country?

 

 

 

  1. What are the leading causes of death in US? (Click here)  fill in the appropriate information for this search. (fill in the appropriate search information)

 

 

 

  1. What are the leading causes of death in Illinois for the population for your age? (Click here) .  (fill in the appropriate search information)

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the leading cause of death overall in the state of Illinois?

  2. How does this compare the results for Illinois with that of Mississippi? (Click here)  fill in the appropriate information for this search. What difference do you observe and why do you believe these difference exist?

 

 

 

  1. What search could you do with this website to further analyze and hypothesize about the causes for these differences?

 

 

 

  1.  Examine this website. What do you feel are some of the most significant statistics on the site and why?