POPULATION AND URBANIZATION

"Population and urbanization"

"Population and urbanization"

Urbanization

Urbanization is an extensive process, having a number of common, common features. Among them is the greater concentration of population in mountainous cities and metropolitan areas, in addition to the steady expansion of urban areas and urban growth. In different countries, the urban population is determined by the heterogeneous characteristics. One of them - is the minimum residential settlements. In Denmark and Sweden, for example, the minimum number of residents needed to consider this settlement town of 200 people in Japan - 30.0 thousand people (Ankerl, 1986).

Thus, the criteria are many, and in different countries vary. Nevertheless, even the use of general criteria allows us to establish the urban population of the world. Calculations show that in 1990 accounted for 75.0% of the citizens of North America, 73.0% of the population Abroad Europe, 70.0% of the population of Latin America and Australia, 65.0% of the population of the former Soviet Union, with regard to foreign countries of Asia and Africa, where the proportion of citizens was 35.0%.

Considering the Urbanization of Colombia

By the beginning of the 20th century, the population of Colombia was about 4 million inhabitants. By the 50s, it has already reached 12 million by the end of 1990, about 40 million. The growth rate of population change during the 20th century: 2% annually in the 1940s, peaking at 3.4% in 1950. Then slowly declined to 2% by the mid-1970s and have stabilized at the end of 1990 at 1.6% annually. A study by the U.S. Forest Service estimates that 10% of the forests south of the country could disappear within 50 years due to urbanization. The population growth in 13 southern states from Texas to Virginia may lose 23 million acres of the 200 million acres of forests in the south (80 million hectares), reports Bloomberg Business Week May 17. The population growth reduces the capacity of forest management by the agencies whose mission it is," says the report writer Dave Wear, because 90% of the forests of the southern United States are privately owned and of companies. One consequence of the disappearance of these forests will affect the water supply in these regions (Sridhar, K. 2007).

Considering the population shift in Russia

Significant changes in the distribution of population occurred in the first half of the 21st century. The lowest population growth in those years was distinguished by Belarus and north-western province. There was a small increase in the Central Non-Chernozem region, especially in the Kostroma and Yaroslavl provinces. Low population growth was characteristic of the Little Russian provinces - their inhabitants moved to the New Russia, the Volga and Siberia. As a result, New Russia, the Volga, in the Tauride province and the Don region's population grew rapidly. If you take a hundred year of Russian history after the Napoleonic wars, during which time the population of the empire increased by 3.5 times. At the same time, the population of New Russia increased 8.5 times, and the Urals - ...