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Geography - Population - Key Words
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- 1Populationa group of people within an area
- 2Distributionthe spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume
- 3Denselyan area with lots of people living in it
- 4Sparselyan area that has a few people living in it
- 5Birth ratenumber of births in a year per 1,000 population
- 6Death ratenumber of deaths in a year per 1,000 population
- 7Infant mortalitythe number of babies out of every thousand that dies before the age of one
- 8Demographicsthe statistics of a population e.g. age, income, education
- 9Demographic transition modelthe transition of high birth rates and death rates to low birth rates and death rates that occurs as part of the economic development of a country from a pre industrial to a post industrial economy
- 10Migrationthe movement of persons from one country or locality to another
- 11Push factorsthings that make people want to leave an area
- 12Pull factorsthings that encourage a person to an area
- 13Immigrantperson who leaves one country to permanently settle in another
- 14Migranta person who leaves his/her country of origin to seek residence in another country
- 15Emigratewhen a person leaves there country of origin to settle in another country
- 16Refugeea person who has been forced to leave his/her home because of fear of persecution
- 17Dependency rationthe ration of people who defined as dependant (under 15 years old and above 64 years old)
- 18Population pyramida bar graph showing the population divided into males and females in different age groups
- 19Censusthe process of obtaining information from every member of a population
- 20Ageing populationoccurs when the average age of a population is getting older
- 21Life expectancythe average number of years a person is expected to live
- 22Replacement ratethe total fertility that exactly balances births and deaths, so the population growth is zero
- 23Exponential growtha change in population that is proportional to the size of the population
- 24Migratewhen a person moves from one country to another and settles there
- 25EmigrantAll people moving out od a country
- 26Internal Migrationpeople moving location within a country
- 27Destinationthe place were migrants settle
- 28Country of originthe country where migration starts
- 29International MigrationMoving from a country to a different country
- 30Asylum Seekersforced migrants (war or human rights issues) who want refugee status in another country
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