Population Distribution II
A massive piece of land on Earth that consists of Europe, with just under 10% of the human population, and Asia, which accounts for almost 60% of humanity
What is Eurasia?
The average number of children born per woman during her reproductive lifetime, considered to be from 15 to 49 years of age
What is Total fertility rate (TFR)?
Factors that cause people to be dissatisfied with their present locales and want to move somewhere else
What are Push factors?
People who leave their country because of persecution based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or political opinion
What are Refugees?
The number of years a person can expect to live from birth
What is Life expectancy?
A country with an advanced economy and a high standard of living
What is a Developed (or industrialized) country?
A measure of how many infants die within the first year of their life per 1000 live births
What is Infant mortality rate (IMR)?
The attributes of other places that make them appealing to potential migrants
What are Pull factors?
Someone who remains within his or her country’s borders despite being persecuted by their home country
What is an Internally displaced person (IDP)?
Designed to curtail population growth by reducing fertility rates
What are Antinatalist policies?
Countries that are of relatively low income or economically poorer than developed countries
What is a Developing (or industrializing) country?
The number of years it takes for a population to double in size
What is Doubling time?
A nearby attractive locale where migrants may decide to settle instead of going to the intended destination farther away
What is an Intervening opportunity?
Involuntary mass dispersions of a population from its home territory
What is a Diaspora?
A branch of medicine that studies the distribution, determinants, and control of diseases and other health conditions, such as tobacco use and sedentary lifestyle
What is Epidemiology?
The number of people a particular environment or Earth as a whole can support on a sustainable basis
What is Carrying capacity?
The difference between the number of births and deaths in a given year, when expressed as a percentage of total population
What is Rate of natural increase (RNI)?
A phenomenon where a country or a place loses young, more educated, and skilled people through migration
What is Brain drain?
The forced removal of one ethnic group by another ethnic group to create an ethnically consistent territory
What is Ethnic cleansing?
Conceptualizes how CBR and CDR as well as the resulting RNI change over time as countries go through industrialization and urbanization
What is the Demographic transition model?
The number of farmers per unit of arable land
What is Agricultural density?
The average number of children needed to replace both parents and stabilize population over time
What is Replacement level fertility?
A gauge of the impact of migration on population change, determined by dividing a country’s net migration by its total population, then multiplying by 1000
What is Net migration rate (NMR)?
When refugees or displaced persons return to their home country
What is Repatriated?
Seeks to explain how changes in health services and living standards affect patterns of disease
What is Epidemiological transition theory?