Population Measure
Births per 1,000 people per year
Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
People per total land area.
Arithmetic density
What information can we get from a population pyramid?
Age & gender make-up of a population
Identify the stage with rapid population growth
Stage 2
Define push factor
A reason people leave
This is someone who crosses borders to escape danger.
Refugee
What does the acronym CDR stand for?
Crude Death Rate
People per arable land.
Physiological density
What does a wide base on a population pyramid indicate?
High birth rate
Identify the stage with high birth rates and death rates.
Stage 1
Define pull factor.
Reason people move to a new location
What is an internally displaced person?
Someone forced to move within their country.
Average number of children per woman.
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
Farmers per arable land
Agricultural Density
What does a narrow base on a population pyramid indicate?
Low birth rate
Identify the stage when birth rates begin to fall.
Stage 3
Type of migration where people follow their family or community.
Chain migration
What is a factor leading to forced migration?
War, persecution, natural disaster
measures the economic pressure on a working-age population by comparing the number of dependents (those under 15 and over 64) to those in the productive years (15-64)
Dependency ratio
The maximum number of people an environment can sustainably support.
Carrying capacity
Explain one challenge of an aging population.
Labor shortages, healthcare costs
What stage is Japan in?
Stage 5
Seasonal movement of people & livestock
Transhumance
Emigration of highly skilled, educated individuals (like doctors, scientists, engineers) from their home country might lead to this.
Brain drain
Increased education for women would most affect which population measure?
Total Fertility Rate
Why would agricultural density decrease as a country develops?
More mechanization and technology reduces the need for farmers
What might something like a baby boom look like on a population pyramid?
A bulge in the working age population
What stage is the US in?
Stage 4
Money sent home by migrants to their home country
Remittances
Fear or hostility toward immigrants.
Xenophobia