1.1 Population and economic development patterns

Unit Contents

• 1.1.1 Global population distribution
• 1.1.2 Global patterns of economic development
• 1.1.3 Population distribution and economic development at the national scale

1.1 Population and economic development patterns is part of the core — Global change (Paper 2). The geographic inquiry for this sub-topic is: how population varies between places

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Geographic inquiry: How population varies between places

• Physical and human factors affecting population distribution at the global scale
• Global patterns and classification of economic development:
  • low-income countries
  • middle-income countries and emerging economies
  • high-income countries
• Population distribution and economic development at the national scale, including voluntary internal migration, core-periphery patterns and megacity growth
  • Two detailed and contrasting examples of uneven population distribution

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