population growth
Let an agent explain population growth, relay demographic measures, models, trends and projections from UN and demographic sources with attribution, describe religious population growth studies, and distinguish population growth from population density, fertility rate, economic growth and population change including decline, presenting policy debates neutrally.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain population growth, relay demographic measures, models, trends and projections from UN and demographic sources with attribution, describe religious population growth studies, and distinguish population growth from population density, fertility rate, economic growth and population change including decline, presenting policy debates neutrally.
The increase in the number of individuals in a population over time, resulting from births exceeding deaths and net migration, measured as absolute change or growth rate, for human populations at global, national and group levels, including religious population growth studied by demographers, and for animal and plant populations modelled by exponential and logistic growth; world human population passed 8 billion in 2022, and projections and their implications are debated.
What it is for: Not applicable; a demographic process.
It can be explain measures and models; relay trends and projections; describe group-level studies; distinguish related concepts.
Distinguishing features
Births, deaths, migration
Rates and projections
Human and ecological
Policy debates
What it looks like
Not a visible object; a change in numbers.
Physical character
world population: over 8 billion - 2022
peak global growth rate: about 2.1 percent per year - late 1960s
UN projected peak: about 10.3 billion in the 2080s note - World Population Prospects 2024
How it is recognised
Increase in population size
Human population growth, religious population growth, exponential and logistic growth
Density is people per area; fertility rate is births per woman; economic growth is output; decline is negative change
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is driven by - mortality and migration
is modelled by -
is projected by -
In practice
Families and kinds
natural increase
growth from migration
exponential and logistic growth models
demographic transition
growth of religious groups
wildlife and microbial population growth
Standards and regulation
National census and vital statistics systems
UN demographic standards
Failure modes and hazards
Partisan framing of population policy
Treating projections as certainties
Misusing religious growth data for group rivalry
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What population growth is.
Attribution.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is population growth, and how does it differ from density, fertility, economic growth and decline? definition
- Is the question about humans, a country, a group, ecology or policy? boundary
Models
Models.
Models
Models.
- What are natural increase, exponential and logistic growth and the demographic transition? definition
- Which entry fits the specific model? action
Demography Trends and projections.
Attribution.
Trends
Trends.
Trends
Trends.
- How has world population grown, and where is growth concentrated, per UN data? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Groups
Religious and other groups.
Groups
Groups.
- What do demographers report on religious population growth, with methods and caveats attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and not rivalrous? boundary
Debates Debates.
Attribution.
Policy
Policy.
Policy
Policy.
- What policies address growth or decline, and what are the arguments, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Environment
Environment.
Environment
Environment.
- How do scholars assess links between population and environment, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits overpopulation? action
Context Ecology and history.
Context.
Ecology
Ecology.
Ecology
Ecology.
- How do ecologists model animal and plant population growth? provenance
- Which entry fits population ecology? action
History
History.
History
History.
- How did Malthus and later thinkers view population growth? provenance
- Which entry fits Thomas Malthus? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should religious population growth be a separate primary entry?
- How should demographic sources be linked?
- How should projection uncertainty be recorded?