explain the nature and scope of population geography.
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Population geography is a branch of human geography which is the studies of variation in distribution, characteristics and growth of population. In other words we can say that population geography are population size, growth, density, distribution and other factors such as migration, fertility, mortality, ethinicity, aging etc. To study population geography certain tools are used. such as count, rate, proportion, corhort measure and period measure.
Data of population geography comes in form such as quantitative data, which expressed in numbers such as weight, height, total population, and second qualitative data which categories in non-numeric form such as sex, socio status etc.
The understading of population structure and population characteristics is very important. Population structure implies the age and sex structure of the population and population characteristics includes marital status, labour force status etc.
The scope of population studies is concerned with a quantitative and territorial distribution of human populations and th chnages occur in them.