Today in human geo we watched a ted talks youtube video. I learned that Nigeria is increasing. Russia is decreasing in population. Japan has the longest life expectancy. We talked about demographic transition, post-industrial, industrial, post-industrial. Life expectancy goes up up when it is industrial because they have have more money to take care of themselves. The rural vs urban living changed durning industrialization. 

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