SPAIN´S POPULATION

Spain´s population is unevenly distributed because of historical, socioeconomic and geographical factors. With regard to history, in the 19th century there was an important population growth and the coastal and industrial areas were the most attractive places in which people moved. Afterwards, between 1960 and 1970 there was a rural depopulation that also affected coastal regions because of an increase in unemployment. As a proof we can see the difference in the population density, where cities like Madrid exceed 650 inhabitants per square kilometre whereas in the rural areas it is less than 50. In the end of the 20th century, the countryside modernisated but on the other hand, some areas stabilized a huge population like Madrid, the Canary Islands, Andalusia or the Mediterranean coast. This unevenly distribution is also caused by geographical factors such as the human tendency of living near the sea and in temperate climates. Moreover, socioeconomic reasons also affect the population distribution because people is usually more atracted to industrial areas with more job opportunities. By observing the graph below we can see that the most populated areas are Andalusia, Community of Madrid, Catalonia or the Community of Valencia gathering more or less the 60 percent of Spain´s population.

A LOMOS DE LA BESTIA

1. Summarize in a few lines the documentary.
 What we have seen in the documentary is the cruel reality that illegal immigrants are forced to live everyday since they need to escape from their previous lifes, and all the obstacles they go through in their try to achieve their objetives by train. 2. Why is the train called the Beast?  Because of its cruelty and the stories that are told about it. Many people say that the Beast can tear off somebody limbs in case they aren´t careful enough. Also, although it is very sad, many people can prove it too.

 3.What countries are the immigrants from? Where do they go?
Immigrants come from many South American countries, but they are mainly from Honduras, San Salvador, Guatemala, Brazil...
Despite of the fact that they come from different countries, they all go to the same place, United States.

4.What is the academic profesional experience of the immigrants?
 Most of them have almost no profesional experience and some have bad paid jobs. Regarding illegal jobs, they don´t see it as a crime, it is just another way of earning a living.

5.What dangers do the immigrants face during the journey? Among many other things, immigrants are exposed to being stolen, attacked, raped or even murdered.

6. What types of migratory routes are described in the documentary?
From South to North in order to move from a less civilized society to a country with a higher life quality.

7.Explain the consequences of migrations for both the countries that send the emigrants away and the countries that receive immigrants.
Migration and immigration brings some consequences as for example, for the emiting countries, the lack of employment and for the receiving countries, the economic stabilization. However, this facts doesn´t only affect economy, they are also related with the culture and society of both countries.

  8.Give your opinion.
Finally, as a conclussion, I liked the documentary because it taught me things about immigration that I didn´t know. On the other hand, I gelt completely powerless and helpless because I can´t do anything to help them and solve that situation. Inspite of this I believe it is a great documentary that shows some people situation and help us to retrain about how lucky we are for have being born in this country. It also shocked me that immigrants didn´t matter a lot their lifes or possesions and made me think in how difficult the situation had to be to force people to go for a ride in ``La Bestia´´.

POPULATION PYRAMID

A population pyramid is a graph that shows the structure of society by sex and age given in a specific time and place. The pyramid we are talking about shows the demographic structure of country 1 in the 2012. Observing the sex ratio we can say that the percentage of girls and boys born is the same, 16%. The sex ratio matches at the age of 50-54 years. Life expectancy is very similar in both sexs although it is higher for women. This might be caused because women are exposed to less risky jobs and have better health cares maybe because of better genetics too. With regard to the shape of the pyramid we can see an expansive shape with concave sides. This country is clearly in stage 1. In addition, the structure of the pyramid exhibits high birth and death rates and also quite short life expectancy. The age group with a larger number of people is the Young dependants that means that there is high birth rates. There aren't many irregularities in the pyramid shape and we can see that it is in the first stage, following the previous evidences, including the concave sides and the expansive shape. As we can see, this country, probably Niger, is in LEDC phase, it is a developing country. Among the measures that can be applied to deal with the short life expectancy or the country deficiencies we can mention some better hygienic conditions, more potable water and food resources etc. According to the data shown, we can predict that Niger is going to be developing until new measures will be included.

LIFE EXPECTANCY

Life Expectancy is the length of time that a human being is likely to live in a country. The 10 countries with the highest life expectancy are Japan, Switzerland, Singapore, Spain, Australia, Italy, Iceland, Israel, France and Sweden; whereas the 10 countries with the lowest life expectancy are Sierra Leone, Angola, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d´Ivoire, Lesotho, Nigeria, Somalia, Cameroon and South Sudan. These differences are caused due to an important gap in the resources of hygiene, food and medicine among others. The evolution of technological medicine devices has changed a lot the way of human living in many countries allowing them to have a higher life expectancy as well as having good resources of food and water which helps the quality life. On the other hand, the lowest life expectancy countries, have a harsh problem regarding medicine, which sometimes is not even possible to practise, hygiene, affecting and increasing the disease production and also the lack of food and potable water that harms the poorest countries quality life.

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