Push & Pull Factors
Population Pyramids
and DTM
Economic Development
Levels
Economic Activity
(Job) Levels
Economic Systems
200

War or high levels of crime in a home country.

What is a push factor?

200

Demographic Transition Model stage that has a rapidly increasing population.

What is Stage 2?

200

A country where a majority of jobs are at the primary level such as subsistence agriculture or small-scale farms.

What is a less developed country?

200

A natural resources job such as mining for diamonds.

What is a primary level job?

200

A type of economy where the government controls nearly everything.

What is a command economy?

400

Economic opportunities in a region.

What is a pull factor?

400

The stage pyramid likely for a newly industrialized or industrializing country.

What is stage 3?

400

A country where a majority of the jobs are in the service industry.

What is a more developed country?

400

A job such as those in education, healthcare, or hospitality industry (restaurants and hotels).

What are tertiary level jobs?

400

Food, water, shelter, clothing.

What are the four basic needs?

600

High possibility of natural disaster.

What is a push factor?
600

DTM stage not found in any entire countries of the world today.

What is Stage 1?

600

A country where a majority of jobs are in administration, management, and the knowledge sector (like politics and universities).

What is a more developed country?

600

A job at a factory that produces Sprayground backpacks.

What is a secondary level economic activity?

600

A type of economy where the government is not very involved in the economic sector except to protect private ownership of businesses and land. People produce goods, buy, and sell freely -- supply and demand determines prices.

What is a free enterprise or free market economy?

800

A country giving away free land to individuals.

What is a pull factor?

800

The stage pyramid showing a definitely declining population.

What is Stage 5?

800

A country where the majority of jobs are in factories and production.

What is an industrializing country? (or newly industrialized)

800

A knowledge or administrative job such as college president of University of Texas.

What is a quaternary level job?

800

A type of economy based on trade, bartering, customs, heritage, and often subsistence agriculture; resources are not wasted.

What is a traditional economy?

1000

Mostly free education & health care.

What are pull factors?

1000

The pyramid stages common in more developed countries.

What are stages 4 and 5?

1000

A development level with LOWER rates of demographic indicators like life expectancy, literacy rate, GDP per capita, and HIGHER rates of indicators like infant mortality and % of population in agricultural jobs.

What is a less developed country?

1000

A management job such as CEO of YouTube

What is a quaternary level job?

1000

A type of economy with very high taxes (40%+) where the government controls major industries, and provides major services like education and/or health care, but encourages smaller private ownership of business.

What is socialism?

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