Population of the Earth

1. Quantity and Density of Population

Quantity. The total population of the earth amounts to over three thousand million inhabitants. As the average birth-rate is greater than the death-rate, the earth's population is gradually increasing (by about 60 millions a year).

2. Races of Man

The Principal Races and Their Distribution Over the Parts of the World. People differ in outward appearance: in height, features, colour of skin, eyes, hair, etc. On the basis of these differences all mankind is divided into several race-groups. We usually distinguish three primary races: the Black Race, the Yellow Race and the White Race.

Questions and Assignments.

Study your Atlas map of race distribution and indicate:
a)   the climatic region mainly populated by members of the
Black Race;
b)  the areas mainly populated by members of the  Yellow Race;

c) the parts of the world originally inhabited by members  of the White Race and those they emigrated to more recently.