RBSE Class 8 Social Science Notes Geography Chapter 6 Human Resource

These comprehensive RBSE Class 8 Social Science Notes Geography Chapter 6 Human Resource will give a brief overview of all the concepts.

RBSE Class 8 Social Science Notes Geography Chapter 6 Human Resource

→ People are a nation’s greatest resource. It is people with their demands and abilities that turn them into ‘resources’. Hence, human resource is the ultimate resource. Human resources like other resources are not equally distributed Over the world.

→ Distribution of population: The distribution of world’s population is quite uneven. Most of the world’s population lives on a small part of the land.

→ Density of population: Population density is the number of people living in a unit area of the earth’s surface. It is normally expressed as per square km.

→ Factors affecting distribution of population: The major factor that affects the distribution of population is geographical factors which include topography, climate, soil, water and minerals. Apart from this soical, cultural and economic also affect the distribution of population.

→ Population change: The population change refers to change in the number of people during a specific time. The world population is continuously increasing. In many countries population is increasing due to immigration whereas in many countries population is decreasing due to emigration.

→ Pattern& bf population change: Rate of population growth vary across the world. In many countries this rate is very high and in many countries this rate is very low.

→ Population composition: Population composition refers to the structure of the population. It includes sex ratio, literacy, health condition, income, age, etc. An interesting way of studying the population composition of a country is by taking at the population pyramid, also called .an age-sex pyramid. It shows the current population of men and women in a country in their age group.