Flashcards
Population Indicators
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- 1What is birth rate?The number of births per 1000 of the total population per year.
- 2Examples of birth rates?Niger=55 per 1000
Particularly high
UK=12 per 1000
Relatively low - 3What factors influence birth rate?Infant mortality
Education
Economic development
Cost-benefit of children
Attitudes to women
Religion and culture
Government policies
Welfare provision
Structure of the population
Age of marriage - 4Why does infant mortality effect birth rate?-There is a lower chance of children surviving
-Have more children for more help working on farms for example
Link: cost-benefit of children, economic development - 5Why does education effect birth rate?-Reduces family size
-Consumer society
-Contraception
-Women working
-Sanitation and hand washing reduce disease - 6Why does the cost-benefit of children effect birth rate?-Look after in old age
-Expensive (£200,000 in UK to raise a child)
-Agriculture (labour) - 7Why do attitudes to women effect birth rate?If the male is dominant then they might have more children than the woman wanted
- 8Why does religion and culture effect birth rate?-Promote large families, continue teachings
-Against contraception - 9Why do government policies effect birth rate?Pronatal (France)
Antinatal (China, Kerala) - 10Why does welfare provision effect birth rate?-pensions
-Care by family or by governement - 11Why does the structure of the population and the age of marriage effect birth rate?Younger=more time=morechildren
- 12What is death rate?The average number of deaths per 1000 per year.
- 13Factors influencing mortality?-Disease outbreak (HIV and Aids)
-Natural disasters
-Health care
-Level of development
-Diet
-Drug & alcohol abuse
-Education
-Climate (spread of diseases, droughts)
-Structure of population (older=dying more)
-Sanitation (stop spread of cholera)
-Medical advances (penicillin)
-Communication & infrastructure (get to hospitals)
-War - 14What is fertility rate?The average number of children a woman will give birth to in her lifetime.
- 15What is infant mortality rate?The average number of deaths per 1000 births before the age of 1 per year.
- 16What is life expectancy?The average age a baby is expected to live to.
- 17What is migration rate?The number of immigrants compared to the number of emigrants in an area per 1000 per year.
(positive=more people entering) - 18What is population density?The number of people per unit area.
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- Flashcards for the meanings and reasons behind a variety of poulation indicators.
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- Beccy Stead
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