New Lesson on Population and Settlement

     Today in Honors Human Geography we started a new lesson about Population and Settlement. Some key issues are where the world's population is distributed, why the global population is increasing, why population growth varies among different regions, and why some regions face health threats. Here's a list of some facts about population and settlement: There are currently over 7.5 billion people on the Earth. The population is increasing by 73 million every year. 200,000 people are born a day (8,377 per hour, 149 per minuet, 2.5 per second). 90% of the population growth takes place in developing countries like those in Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America. Life expectancy is the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year. The country with the highest life expectancy is Monaco with an average of 89. The U.S. average is 79, and the lowest is in Chad 49.