Pakistans Changing Demography

Download or read book Pakistan’s changing demography written by Kedir, Mekamu and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to evaluate improvements in transportation infrastructure and related urbanization over the last 40 years in Pakistan. In addition, we suggest a definition to measure peri-urban population using the agglomeration index methodology developed by Uchida and Nelson (2008). In doing so, we incorporate a series of GIS data including: travel time rasters, population density rasters and other nationally collected biophysical and infrastructure variables (i.e. roads, railroads, waterbodies) in order to construct measurements of urban agglomeration within Pakistan. We use road and population data from corresponding census years (and government growth rates for more recent population estimates) to model reductions in remoteness to urban areas over time.