Today we watched a video in class about the decreasing death rates due to citizens getting better health care, eating right, being more cautious, and just doing everything they can to live longer. The numbers are down for many health problems like, diabetes, cancer, aides, and many others. In the early years of the United States people changed from hunters and gathers to farmers. They produced more crops and in result lived longer due to the nutritional health. One major reason why people back then ended up living longer is because of the Industrial Revolution, more machines were being made and more workers were needed and got paid for their work. That pay went to feeding their family and making sure they were healthy. Sanitary actions were also discovered during the Industrial Revolution and made living conditions ten times better.
We had a worksheet that we did earlier this week and on that worksheet is a graph showing different countries in the world and their annual population growth rate and population size. China's population size is 1345.8 million but the population growth rate is only 0.6%. To me that means that China has a large amount of people in the country but there also not gaining a lot of people. Their population is almost just standing still. Madagascar's population is only 19.6 and their growth rate is a whopping 2.6%. Madagascar is growing very rapidly. The whole world is trying to make efforts to decrease the death rates and that's what I think will really help the population size. Babies will always be born until the end of time so I think we should focus on keeping everyone as healthy as can be to keep them alive as long as possible.
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