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you got that right! The Worlds Deepest valley is the Yarlung Zangbo valley in the Himalayas.The peaks of Namche Barwa (25,436feet) and Jala Peri ( 23,891 feet) are 13 miles apart.
Due to the earth's equatorial bulge, Mt. Chimborazo, Ecuador.
Similarly, the closest land to the center of the earth would be the north shore of ATOW1996, a small island that is documented as the northernmost land on earth. It is located several miles north of Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland. Any land of similar or higher latitude in the southerh hemisphere would lie at significant elevation on the Antarctic continent.
What sort of state or country is referred to by statisticians as a 'demographic conundrum'? (hint: there are several)....
Germany,Switzerland,Denmark,Norway,Sweden,Finland and Holland are a few examples of demographic conundrums.
Demographic Conundrums are happening over in Europe where they could be losing 3 to 5 Million people a year by the year 2050. The voluntarily childlessness of the Japanese people is being paired with the forced population watch of Chinas one child policy. China's population is expected to peak at around 1.4 to 1.5 billion people around 2020. Then dramaticly shrink. Europe and Asia are predicted to lose about a quarter of their population each generation. The Head of Mexico's National Population Council said the number of cradles is barely exceeding the number of coffins. Fertility rates in Mexico are on the decline.Birth rates in Africa continue to be at very high rates the epidemic of AIDS is claiming newer victims so Africa's long term demographic is in doubt.
The US isnt exactly out of the ballpark. The population of the USA is still preojected to grow by about .6% to 1% every year atleast through 2030 there is evidence that the population of the USA will start declining around the year 2050 according to this.
"Fertility Rate" is an expression that has always amused me. The fertility rate remains constant. At any given time, about 10% of the women of child-bearing age in any population are fertile---each one about three days out of 30. Birth rates go up or down according to how many of those women become fertilized and carry to term. The correct term should be "Fertilization Rate".
Furthermore, "Conumdrum" here is a misnomer:
co·nun·drum
A paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma:
Not only is this pnemonemon not paradoxical nor insuluble, but it in fact occurs by design, exactly as predicted. It would, in fact, be a conundrum if the nations involved had taken social and political measures to reduce their birth rates and the rates had failed to fall.
gdude, jtur, you're both wrong. A "Demographic Conundrum" is defined as a state or an area in which ..."there may NOT be a large number of inhabitants per square mile, but nevertheless the population is EXTREMELY DENSE".
I won't name these places...we all can think of a few.
gdude, jtur, you're both wrong. A "Demographic Conundrum" is defined as a state or an area in which ..."there may NOT be a large number of inhabitants per square mile, but nevertheless the population is EXTREMELY DENSE".
I won't name these places...we all can think of a few.
"Extremely dense" and "large number" are relative terms. Compared to what? I think the people who make up these expressions are extremely dense.
Perhaps it means that, relatively speaking, the state has a low capacity to sustain life, and the population has exceeded that capcity. Why don't they just say that?
I wish youwould name a few, so we can get a handle on what the term really is trying to signify. Like, the beaches of Northern Baja have a low capacity to sustain life, but there are lots of disgruntled Viet Nam vets living there in old vans. Does that make it a demographic conundrum?
I just googled / diagonal-elephant / and got 600 hits, compared to less than half that many (284) for / demographic-conundrum /, so apparently , it is not a concept that is setting the world on fire.
"Extremely dense" and "large number" are relative terms. Compared to what? I think the people who make up these expressions are extremely dense.
Perhaps it means that, relatively speaking, the state has a low capacity to sustain life, and the population has exceeded that capcity. Why don't they just say that?
I wish youwould name a few, so we can get a handle on what the term really is trying to signify. Like, the beaches of Northern Baja have a low capacity to sustain life, but there are lots of disgruntled Viet Nam vets living there in old vans. Does that make it a demographic conundrum?
I just googled / diagonal-elephant / and got 600 hits, compared to less than half that many (284) for / demographic-conundrum /, so apparently , it is not a concept that is setting the world on fire.
You're quite correct. Today, in our politically-correct society, referring to the inhabitants of ANY state as being "dense" could well earn one an invitation to an "a$$ kicking"....or at least the offer of a "knuckle sandwich" or a "wood shampoo". PROBABLY why you found so few references to the subject during your search.
This trivia quation really is historical, not grographic.
What was the last country in Latin America to become independent of Spanish rule?
(Excluding Dominican Republic, in which the Spanish continued to drift in and out of control, so was both the first and the last to do so.)
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