Lesson 9: Population Growth in India

February 16, 2021

Zoom meeting link

Review:

• Q4 Cartography Activity
• Russia

Presentation:

• South Asia Geography:
  • Map Quiz Game
• Front lines of climate change, rising sea levels
  • Maldives (Recommended: The Island President)
  • Bangladesh 

• Population Growth
  • World Population in 2015 (Economist video)
  • Population Pyramids
•  India
  • Population
    • 2017: India = 1.34B, China = 1.39B, US = 326M
    • 2022: India ~ 1.42B, China = 1.41 B, US = 338M
    • Time Plot
  • Economy
    • Growth rate in 2018 = 7%
    • “Middle Class” in India larger than the entire US Population
      • George W. Bush quote (Reuters)
      • India to America: Eat Less, Fatties (Time)
    • Projections
      • world’s 3rd largest economy in 10 years
      • world’s largest economy in 30 years
  • Video
    • India Rising (Foreign Policy Association)

Assignment:

• Watch India Awakes (Free to Choose Media)
• Read India’s missing middle class (Economist)