Population Math Worksheet – Answer Key
1. One thousand two hundred and seventy deer are living on an island that is eight hundred and thirty square
kilometers in size. What is the population density of the deer per square kilometer?
1270/830 = 1.53 deer per km2
2. A city with 53,340 people has 876 births. What is the birth rate (as a percentage and per thousand)?
876/53340 = 16 per thousand or 1.6%
3. Another city experiences 12 deaths for each thousand people. What is the death rate (as a percentage and per
thousand)? 1.2% or 12 per 1000
4. A village of 23,473 people has 2,342 births and 473 deaths. What is the growth rate for this village?
CBR = 2342/23473*1000 = 99.77 CDR = 473/23473*1000 = 20.15 99-20= 77 per thousand
5. A small country of 744,785 people has 44,678 immigrants and 12,567 emigrants. They also experience 15,898
deaths and 35,665 births. What is the growth rate of this small country?
80,343-28,465 = 51887/744785 = .0697 6.97% or 69.7 per 1000
6. How many years will it take for this country to double its population? 70/7 = 10 years
7. If a country were doubling its population every 35 years, what would its growth rate be? 2% (70/35 = 2)
8. At the end of 2002, there were 1,284.53 million people living in China. China is the third largest country in the
world with an area of 9.6 million square kilometers. What is the population density of China?
1284.53/9.6 = 133.81 million people per square kilometer
9. In 2002, 16.47 million babies were born in China. What was the birth rate (as a percentage and per 1000)?
16.47/1284.53 = 1.28% or 12.8 per thousand
10. In 2002, 8.21 million people died in China. What was the death rate (as a percentage and per 1000)?
8.21/1284.53 = 0.64% or 6.4 per 1000
11. What was the total overall growth rate of China’s population in 2002? 12.8-6.4 = 6.4 per 1000 or .64%
12. Using the rate from the previous question, how many years will it take for China’s population to double?
70/0.64 = 109.38 years
13. In 2000, there were 30,750,087 people living in Canada, which has a total area of 9,984,670 km 2. What was the
population density of Canada? 30750087/9984670 = 3.08 people per km2
14. In reality, there are a lot of fresh water lakes in Canada, about 891,163 km 2 of lakes. What was the population
density of terrestrial Canada in 2000? 30750087/(9984670-891163) = 3.38 people per km2
15. In 1999 with a beginning population of 30,491,000 people, there were 335,500 births in Canada. What was the
birth rate, expressed as per 1000? 335500/30491000 x 1000 = 11 births per 1000
16. In Canada during the same year there were 225,500 deaths, 205,711 immigrants and 41,142 emigrants. What was
the growth rate for Canada? [(335500+205711) – (225500 + 41142)] / 30491000 = 0.9% or 9 per 1000
17. How many years will it take for Canada’s population to double? 70/0.9 = 77.78 years
18. The population density of California is about 82 people per km 2. How much more densely populated is California
than Canada (total area)? 82-3.08 = 78.92 more people per km2 in California
19. What are two reasons that California is more densely populated than Canada?
FORMULA HINTS
Population Density: total population
total area
Birth Rate (as a %): total births X 100
total population
Birth Rate (per 1000): total births x 1000
total population
Death Rate (as a %): total deaths x 100
total population
Death Rate (per 1000): total deaths x 1000
total population
Crude Birth Rate: total # births xm
total population
Crude Death Rate: total # death x 1OOO
Total population
Population Change:
(births + immigration) - (deaths + emigration)
total population
Population Growth Rate:
(births + immigration) - (deaths + emigration) X 1000
total population
Doubling Time: 70 = years to double
% growth rate
Rate of Change: (new-old)
old
Percent Change: (new-old) X 100
old
Natural Rate of Population Increase; births-deaths
