Global
Demography
Republic of the Philippines
CENTRAL BICOL STATE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE
Calabanga | Pasacao | Pili | Sipocot

Objective:
1. identify the different international issues and trends
in global population;
2. synthesize the concept of globalization in relation
to demography and population; and
3. explain the theory of demographic transition and its
effects on global population.

Demography
-the statistical study of human populations
especially with reference to size and density,
distribution, and vital statistics.
Population
-the whole number of people or inhabitants in a
country or region
Multipolar world
-Involving several countries having most
of the power.

Demography
is a field in statistics that is concerned with births,
deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which
later illustrates the changing structure of human
populations.
In the context of political science, demography is a
statistical study to determine world population that
can be used as a tool to identify certain phenomenon
in geopolitics, public administration, and others.

It is in a global civil society where transnational
non-governmental organizations and social
movements operate and offer an alternative to
transnational corporations.
The role of a global civil society in global
demography is its salient influence on institutional
decision-making, affecting the populations at large.

Global demography
-is about the trends and practices in world politics.
-It is the study of the issues and developments of
the global population.

According to Bonald Lee (2003),
demography is currently in transition; the mortality
rate declined followed by fertility, causing population
growth rates to accelerate and then to slow down
again. This demographic transition leads to low
fertility, long life, and an old population.

The global demographic transition all began in the
19th century when Europeans were declining in
mortality rate (Lee, 2003) and there were some rising
societies in Asian and Latin American regions.
The ongoing transition in global demography is
caused by formal migration and some historical
events, such as colonialism, inter-war reduction, and
post-world war migration.

The development from pre-industrial to industrialized
economy also caused this transition from high to low
mortality and fertility.
It is observed that most developed nations have
completed this transition and thus have low birth
rates and high income; developing nations, however,
are still in transition.

It is debatable whether higher income results in lower
population growth, or whether lower population leads
to higher income.

Lee (2003)
the transition to low mortality rate was influenced
by the reduction of contagious and infectious
diseases caused by advancements in medicine and
improved nutrition because of the presence of local
and international markets due to better transportation
of goods.

Meanwhile, the factors that led to low fertility rate
are the preference over child survival than
number of child births and the assumption that
raising children is more costly than the
consumption of goods, as children render less
economic contributions due to years spent on
education.

some of the trends in global demography:
• The economic bubble in some parts of the world
• wars in different states of every region,
• the existence of transnational crimes
• climate change and
• migration

Since globalization has something to do with the
population demand of a state, its effect on
demography in terms of overpopulation must be
noted.
Population is part of human demography and since
the world is shrinking, this condition develops a
concept of a globalized world wherein a state
population transcends into global population.

In the Philippine context, overpopulation did not
manifest. However, some experts in local or internal
migration suggest that due to the promise of a good
quality of living, Filipinos from rural areas Thove to
cities thus causing overpopulation. Internal migration
may cause Overpopulation in some areas of the
country.

Thank you!