1) Population and Economic Development Patterns:

How population varies between places

Physical and human factors affecting population distribution at the global scale

Global patterns and classification of economic development:

  • low-income countries
  • middle-income countries and emerging economies
  • high-income countries

Population distribution and economic development at the national scale, including voluntary internal migration, core-periphery patterns and megacity growth

  • Two detailed and contrasting examples of uneven population distribution

Synthesis, evaluation and skills opportunities

  • The relative importance of different influences on where people live and spatial interactions between places at varying scales