Global Demography: Global Population and Mobility

GLOBAL
that surpass the boundaries of states and the

importance of political implications.
POPULATION AND But the questions remain: what is the relation of

demography in globalization? Is it possible to have a
MOBILITY: global demography?
DEFINING DEMOGRAPHY
Global Demography is a field in statistics that is concern in

births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease
DEMOGRAPHY through which later illustrate the changing structure of
human populations.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
In the context of political science, demography is a
At the end of this Unit, the students are expected to
way to determine the population of the people that can
demonstrate the following:
use as a tool to identify certain phenomenon in
 Understand the different international issues geopolitics, public administration and as such.
and trends on global population;
ROLE OF GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY IN GLOBAL
 Synthesize the concept of globalization in
DEMOGRAPHY
relation to demography and population;
 Explain the theory of demographic transition as The changing perspective of technology and the
it affects global population. movement of international organizations (IOs) has
created the world a global civil society.
INTRODUCTION
The idea of global civil society was seen during the
Through the years in teaching international
‘90s as a mosaic of new groups, organizations and
relations and diplomacy, the world is indeed changing.
movements started to appear, which both sought to
By looking in the perspective of politics and challenge or resist what was seen as ‘corporate’
sociology we can see that geography, multi-polarity of globalization and create alternative models of social,
power, and even the population growth are changing. economic and political development (Heywood, 2011).
The world is indeed flattening.
To simplify, the role of global civil society in global
GLOBALIZATION AND THE GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHY demography is being the representative of the
globalized world.
According to Thomas Friedman (2005) change is
inevitable because of the flattening world. As he Global Demography is about the trends and
travelled across the world, he talks to different practices in world politics. Therefore, it is the study of
nationalities, ethnicities, and different set of classes. the issues and developments of the global population.
One thing he learned about, is that twenty-first century
A DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION
is becoming more globalize and interconnected.
Demography is moving and increasing however,
Technological innovation, economic cooperation,
according to Ronald Lee (2003) in the transition,
political alliance in international arena are some of the
mortality rate declined and followed by the fertility,
examples of the new trends in international relations.
causing population growth rates first to accelerate and
DEFINING GLOBALIZATION then to slow again, moving toward low fertility.
Globalization is defined in layman’s term as The global demographic transition all began during
interconnectedness of the countries. the 19th century where Europeans are declining in
mortality rate (Lee, 2003) and some are rising societies
The concept of Viotti and Kauppi (2013) about this in Asian and Latin American regions.
trend is a continual increase in transnational and
worldwide economic, social, and cultural interactions
Through the on-going transition of global
demography, formal migration existed and there are
some historical trends occurred:
 Colonialism;
 Inter-war reduction; and
 Post-world war migration.
Demographic transition is an on-going event in the

history however, according to Lee (2003) it will end in
2100.
Global demography is then a series of events in

population growth, fertility and mortality rate for the
past years, decades, and/or centuries.
CONCLUSION
The world is bigger than we ever know but it is

smaller than we ever perceive.
The economic bubble in some parts of the

world, wars against each states in every regions, the
existence of transnational crimes, climate change, and
migration these are some of the trends in global
demography.

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GLOBAL

that surpass the boundaries of states and the

POPULATION AND But the questions remain: what is the relation of

MOBILITY: global demography?

Global Demography is a field in statistics that is concern in

Demographic transition is an on-going event in the

Global demography is then a series of events in

The world is bigger than we ever know but it is

The economic bubble in some parts of the

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