Country Data
Stay or Go?
Smart Moves
Crossing Borders
Shaping Nations
100
What does GDP stand for?
Gross Domestic Product
100
What is the term for when people move from one place to another?
Migration
100
What is the term for the spread of cultural traits from one place to another?
Cultural Diffusion
100
A identification provided by your country that allows you to travel to a foreign country is called a
Visa
100
The horizontal bars in a population pyramid represent this characteristic.
Population
200
What is the term for the average amount of money earned per person in a country, calculated by dividing the total GDP by the population?
GDP per Capita
200
What is a factor that attracts people to a new place?
Pull Factor
200
What is the term for a steady flow of people moving from one place to another?
Migration Stream
200
This is someone who does not have official permission or paperwork to be in a country. Some may have legally entered a country and their paperwork may have expired. Others may have never had permission to enter that country.
Undocumented Migrant
200
A country with a broad-based pyramid is likely to have a high rate of this.
Births
300
Life expectancy, education, and income are the three main factors of what measurement?
HDI (Human Development Index)
300
What is the term for something that makes people leave their home country?
Push Factor
300
When skilled emigrants return home with new knowledge, what is it called?
Brain Gain
300
This is someone with formal training in a profession or career, such as a doctor or a welder, who has come to a new country on a work visa, seeking employment.
Skilled Worker
300
This type of population pyramid shows more younger people than older, indicating rapid growth.
Expansive
400
What type of population pyramid is this?
Expansive
400
What do you call a person who moves into a new country?
Immigrant
400
What is the term for the loss of skilled workers due to emigration?
Brain Drain
400
What do you call someone who flees their country due to war or persecution?
Refugee
400
The shape of a population pyramid for a country with a stable or slow-growing population is often described as this.
Stationary
500
What type of population pyramid is this?
Stationary
500
What do you call a person who leaves their home country?
Emigrant
500
he process of moving permanently to a new country and becoming a citizen.
Naturalization
500
What type of migrant applies for protection in another country?
Asylum Seeker
500
This type of population pyramid indicates a declining population with fewer young people.
Constrictive