Rate Population!

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Today, just like many other classes, we discussed population. We also took plenty of notes regarding a method of recording the rate in which an areas population grows. This method is called RNI, or Rate of Natural Increase. I go in depth on RNI below:

RNI is produced by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate. 

We get those two rates by calculating the number of deaths or births from a sample size of 1000 people. 

What we didn't touch up on initially is the Net Migration Rate (NMR), which has a significant impact on the total population of a region. NMR is calculated similarly to how Death and Birth rates are found. This means that for the amount of people leaving a region within a sample size of 1000 are to be used to create a figure. 

Ex. In class we learn that Canada's NMR is surprisingly higher than the United States, meaning that more people are immigrating (going to Canada), then are to the United States. 

United States NMR: 2.45
Canada NMR: 5.65 (or about 5.65 people per 1,000 people)

This data was extremely surprising to me and I look forward to why it is this way. The way the media portrays emigration (leaving a nation) from Mexico, I figured the United States would have a much higher NMR. Maybe this is a result of the new administration and its added crackdown on illegal aliens. 

That concludes my October 17th Blog Post, Till next time!

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