Demographic Indicators
A town has a population of 1,000 and a land area of 10 km². What is the population density?
Density = 100/km2
Population density is a measure of what?
People/km2
What side of a population pyramid is showing data about females?
Right
Why does Canada want immigrants between the ages of 21 - 44
Working age - support dependency load - pay taxes
What is death rate telling us?
Deaths per 1000 people
Which of the following is NOT a key element of demographics?
A) Migration B) Deaths C) Births D) Towns
D) Towns
A population graph with a wide base and narrow top is showing what type of country?
A) Developed B) Developing
Developing
What is the difference between immigration and emigration?
Immigration = in
Emmigration = out
What can infant mortality rate tell us about a country?
Healthcare, # of doctors, etc.
Someone who flees danger but remains inside their own country would be what category of refugee?
Internally Displaced Person
What are two things population pyramids can tell us about the country?
Answers vary: healthcare, contraceptive access, birth rate, death rate, immigration, etc.
People ages 0 - 15 and ages 65+ are not considered the working population, they are considered what?
Dependency Load
Find the missing variable and solve.
Density = 4 people/km², Area = 7,500 km²
Population = 30,000
Someone who has left their country and is Has left their country and is requesting refugee protection would be what category of refugee?
Asylum Seeker
Calculate the Birth Rate:
Births in one year: 10,000 Population: 10,000,000
Birth Rate = (Births / population) x 1000
(10,000/10,000,000) *1000
= 1
What is a pull factor? Give an example.
Something that brings someone to a particular country/location
Find the missing variable and solve.
An area has 2,500 people living on 1,250 km² of land.
Is this a rural or an urban area?
Population Density = 2/km2
Rural
A Census Metropolitan Area is an area that is around a large urban center. How many people must be in that urban center for this the area to be called that?
Over 100,000
List the five different types of refugees we discussed in class
Give me the equation for the Rate of Natural Increase
Birth Rate - Death Rate