Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Population Key terms
- Birth rate
- The average number of live births per 1000 people per year
- Death rate
- The average number of deaths in a year per 1000 people
- Fertility rate
- The average number of children women have in their lifetime
(between 16-44)
- Growth rate/natural increase
- The difference between the birth and death rates
- BR-DR/10
- Infant mortality
- The proportion of children dying at birth or before their first birthday
- Life expectancy
- The average number of years a person can expect to live
- Forced migration
- Moving against your will for reasons
beyond your control, e.g. Syria
- Voluntary migration
- Making a personal choice to move away from
where you live to somewhere new, e.g company
relocation
- Temporary migration
- Moving to a new place for a period of time but with the
intention of returning home afterwards, e.g polish man for
work for a year
- Permanent migration
- Moving to a new place permanently with
no intention of returning home, e.g
British person moving to Spain and not
coming back
- Pull factors
- Attractive points for an area that make people want to
move there
- Push factors
- Negative points about the area someone already lives
that can force them to leave
- Emigrant
- Someone leaving to live somewhere else
- Immigrant
- Someone arriving in a country to live there from
another country
- Economic migrant
- Those who move for work
- Illegal immigrant
- People who enter a country without letting the proper
authorities know
- Asylum seeker
- Someone from another country at risk who wants to live in
another country to feel safe
- Refugee
- Someone without a home looking for a
place of safety