Population
This model shows the shift from high birth/death rates to low birth/death rates as a society develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
What are the causes of Forced Migration?
Slavery, War, Politics, Poverty, Natural Disasters, etc.
What are three reasons that can cause reduced fertility rates?
Anti-Natalist policies, uneven access to education, and bad health care
The average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years.
What is the Total Fertility Rate
Factor that induces people to leave their current location.
What is push factors?
This policy, implemented by China in 1979, was designed to lower the crude birth rate.
What is the One-Child Policy?
what is the difference between forced and voluntary migration
Forced migration: making someone leave
Voluntary migration: Leaving willingly for a better oppurtunity
What is the Demographic Transition Model
What is birth rate, death rate, population growth
The difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants.
What is Net Migration?
A person forced to migrate to another country to avoid conflict, violence, or persecution.
What is a refugee?
Pro-natalist policies are designed to do this to a country's birth rate.
What is increase?
According to Ravenstein, most migrants move only a short distance, a concept known as this.
What is Distance Decay?
He argued that population increases geometrically while food production increases arithmetically.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
This model describes the changes in life expectancy and the causes of death.
What is the Epidemiological Transition Model?
This type of density calculates the total number of people divided by the total land area.
What is Arithmetic Density?
This concept suggests that a region has too many people compared to its available resources.
What is Overpopulation?
The "Great Migration" in the U.S. involved African Americans moving from the South to these regions in the 20th century.
What are the North and West?
This type of population pyramid with a narrow base indicates a population that is doing what?
Shrinking/Declining (lower birth rate)
This law of migration states that most migrants move a short distance and stay within their country.
What is Ravenstein's Laws of Migration?
This term describes the policy shift in countries like China, where the government moves from strictly limiting family size to encouraging more births to prevent a workforce collapse.
What is Pro-natalist policy
This theory, contrary to Malthus, suggests that food production can increase to meet population growth through technology.
What is Bosporus's Theory
An environmental or political feature that hinders migration.
What is an Intervening Obstacle?
This type of population pyramid with a very wide base represents what?
Rapidly growing population ( High birth rate)
The term for when a country loses its most educated and skilled workers to migration.
What is Brain Drain?
These four regions contain nearly 3/4 of the world's population.
What are East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and Southeast Asia?