The Dutch population

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The Dutch population 

Planning 

• What have we done in the previous lessons?
• Start new chapter 
• Tips en tops 

2.1 Busy! And it will get busier!

• Population distribution 
• Population density 
• Life expectancy  

population distribution

Population distribution (bevolkings spreiding) 

• The way in which the population is distributed over a region. population distribution is not evenly distributed.

Population density

Population density (bevolkingsdichtheid):

• The number of inhabitants dived by the surface area of a country, measured per square kilometre.
  

life expactancy

Life expectancy (levensverwachting)

• The average number of years that the inhabitants of a country will live.  
   

Why are often families in poor countries bigger than in rich countries?

Birth

Four reasons:

1. children can work for their parents and take care of them when they are old.

2. People make less use of ways to prevent getting pregnant.

3. Many children die at a young age,

4. You will be more respected if you have a lot of children.

2.2 The population is growing and leaving 

• Age distribution 
• population graph 
• International migration 
• emigrants 
• immigrants 
• natural population growth 
• social population growth 

Age distribution

1. A person who leaves their country and goes to live in another country.
2. A person who enters a country and goes to live there.
3. Graph with layers for the age groups and the percentage of men and women per age group.
4. The division into age groups of the inhabitants of a country.

population graph

1. Graph with layers for the age groups and the percentage of men and women perage group.
2. The division into age groups of the inhabitants of a country.
3. A person who enters a country and goes to live there.
4. A person who leaves their country and goes to live in another country

emigrants

1. Graph with layers for the age groups and the percentage of men and women perage group
2. The division into age groups of the inhabitants of a country.
3. A person who leaves their country and goes to live in another country.
4. A person who enters a country and goes to live there.

Immigrants

1. A person who leaves their country and goes to live in another country.
2. A person who enters a country and goes to live there.
3. Graph with layers for the age groups and the percentage of men and women perage group
4. The division into age groups of the inhabitants of a country.

2.3 Culture 

• The way in which a group of people lives together
  

Cultural elements: 

•  1. language and religion
  
• 2. Laws, family ties and education
  
• 3. Clothes, food, buildings and art
  

culture Netherlands

2.4 Cultural regions 

Region in which the cultures resemble each other more than they differ from each other 

• The islamic world 
• The western world 
• Sub-Saharan Africa 
• Latin America 
• Russia and the former Soviet union 
• East, South and Southeast Asia 

The Islamic world 

Sub-Saharan Africa 

East, South and Southeast Asia

Cultural elements 

1. religion 
2. history 
3. language
4. prosperity
5. food 

2.5 The Dutch population 

Learning goal: You can give a number of reasons why the population in the Netherlands has increased. 

Read: Growth in the Nederlands (p. 44) 

Growth in the Netherlands