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Analysing the World Population: Using Population Pyramids and If the World Were a Village
Author(s) -
Caniglia Joanne,
Leapard Barbara
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2009.00371.x
Subject(s) - world population , context (archaeology) , population , geography , old world , sociology , demography , archaeology , zoology , biology
Summary The book If the World Were a Village , by David J. Smith, is the context for analysing and creating graphs of the world's demographic information. Students examine numerical information regarding the more than six billion world inhabitants by imagining the world's population as 100 people.