Population Growth & Decline
The average change in a population over time.
What is Population growth rate?
The difference between the number of people immigrating into an area and the number of people emigrating from that area. It is often expressed as a rate, calculated by dividing the ****** by the total population and multiplying by 1,000. Making it a number that might look like +2.31
What is net migration
Something that makes people want to leave a place or escape from a particular situation.
What is Push factor?
Falling living standards reinforce the prevailing high fertility, which in turn reinforces the decline in living standards.
What is Demographic Trap?
The statistical study of human populations, focusing on their size, distribution, density, and changes over time due to factors such as births, deaths, migration, and aging.
What is Demography?
Defined as the ratio between the number of live births in a specified period and the average total population of that period.
What is Birth Rate?
Defined as the movement of people that does not cross international borders.
What is Internal Migration?
The level of fertility at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next.
What is Replacement Rate?
A graph that shows the distribution of ages across a population divided down the center between male and female members of the population.
What is a population pyramid?
A drastic population decline. Essentially, growth fails or collapses.
What is Population Implosion?
The ratio between the number of deaths in a specified period and the average total population of that period.
What is death rate
A person who has escaped from their own country for political, religious, or economic reasons or because of a war
What is a refugee?
A nonprofit organization that operates independently, without the government to address social or humanitarian issues, often focusing on specific population groups or demographics.
what is an NGO
The proportion of a population that is composed of individuals who are too young or too old to work and are dependent on the working-age population for support.
What is dependancy load?
A model that shows how a country's population changes over time as it develops, moving through stages of high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates.
What is the Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?
The difference between the number of births and the number of deaths in a population over a specific period, typically one year. If there are more births than deaths, the ******* is positive, contributing to population growth.
What is natural increase?
To move from one country to another
Someone who moved from one country to another
What is Immigrate & immigrant?
Something that attracts people to a place or an activity
What is pull factor?
Defined as the average number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime, based on current age-specific fertility rates.
What is Total Fertility Rate?
The difference between the number of births and the number of deaths in a population over a specific period, typically one year. If there are more deaths than births, the ****** is negative, contributing to population decrease.
What is natural decrease?
To leave one’s own country and move to another
Someone who left their own country and moved to another
What is Emigrate & Emigrant?
A significant proportion of the population does not regard the state as the legitimate framework for the exercise of power
what is Fragile State?
The number of years required for a specified population to double in size at the current rate of population growth.
What is Doubling time?