CANADIAN DEMOGRAPHICS: URBAN-RURAL POPULATION DISTRIBUTION
By Samatha Oliver
General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Urban-Rural Demographic Distributions
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Agricultural Age Urban-Rural Population Distributio:
Rural populations: the majority of people lived in rural communities working on the land.
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Industrial Age Urban-Rural Population Distributio:
Urban populations: in countries undergoing the industrial revolution, people moved to cities to work in factories. In developing South countries today, many people are moving to cities seeking (but not always finding) jobs and access to modern life, resulting in unmanageable cities and slums in many cases.
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Information Age Urban-Rural Population Distribution:
Option for some to live in countryside, in an "electronic cottage," and be connected to work via electronic communications (computers, modem, and telephone lines); many people prefer to work at a central office some days, and at home other days, however.
Information/Data on Canadian Urban-Rural Population Distribution
In Canada the people have an option. Canada has one the strongest economies in the world desplite slower growth during the global recession of the early 1990's. Canada's Human development Index (0.932) ranks it first out of 173 countries. Real gross domestic product per capita is $19.320. These fiqures indicate economic propsperity which is avaiable to the majority of the population and few people are denied basic needs such as healthcare, education, sufficeient income to support a family.
Conclusions on Canada (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Urban-Rural Population Distribution)
I would place Canada in the information age because thay have a choice in where they want to live.()
Additional Online Sources on Canadian Urban-Rural Population Distribution
Traditional Bibliographic Sources on Canadian Urban-Rural Population Distribution
- CIA World Fact Book
- Encyclopedia of the Nations
- World Almanac
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