Population geography

The population geography and population geography is a branch of human geography. In it, you deal with the help of scientific data collection and presentation methods with the population of a unit of space. May be of interest include:

• Population density and distribution,
• Population structures ( for example, age composition, status characteristics, etc.)
• Natural population growth, that is, Changes in the population ( Geburten-/Sterbefälle )
• Short-or long -term spatial and / or social mobility of area population (see also Migration Research )
• Forecasts of future population composition and population.

With the exemplarily outlined issues on the definition of spatial units, as well as a number of other statistical issues and definitions are connected. The example of the population makes it clear: Here we can distinguish between a de jure number and a de facto specification. In countries with a regulated civil registration is often the de jure population simply to raise well is to use the number of residents who were registered at a particular time in a particular unit of space with their permanent residence. From this statistical size but giving way to the de facto population - ie the people actually instantaneously present in an area - in greater or lesser degree on (for example, persons who are not reported for various reasons there or only their jobs in the area have etc. ).

" The sum of the residents a designated area is designated at a precise time when population. " ( Jürgen Bähr 1983, p 29).

Applications

A variety of plans based on accurate as possible figures for the total population or sub-populations of a room or a room unit. Since plans for future developments make reference, for that can not specify exist, must be closed with suitable scientific method of knowledge of the past and the present to the future .. Here, the methods of population geography are particularly in demand.