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Before diving straight into my home population geography. It is imperative that the terms of the post be defined.
Population Distribution - The way people have arranged themselves in geographic space.
Population Density- The number of people per unit area.
Physiologic Density- The number of people per unit area of arable land.
Rate of Natural Population Increase- Population growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths per 1000 individuals per year.
Doubling Time- The time it will take a population to double in size.
My home population geography is actually quite small comparatively speaking. My girlfriend and I rent a three bedroom house with our two dogs. All four of us share one room (also one bed), leaving 2 unoccupied rooms (arable land) open. That gives us 1/3 population distribution. Now for the part, I even shutter to mention (dun dun dunnn) procreation. Currently we are not planning on little monsters for some time. Yes, I say little monsters because that is exactly what I was and I'm not looking for the payback anytime soon. Ha Ha. Assuming that we start right now our population growth would be one birth per nine months. Generally, pregnancies have a few months span in between. Let's say that is three months (easier math) That equals out to be one 'terrorizer' per 12 months for our rate of natural population increase. Equaling our doubling time to be four years to become a family of eight.
Reference:
J., D. Blij, Muller, P. O., & Nijman, J. (2013). Geography: Realms, regions, and concepts (16th ed.). Portland: Ringgold.