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Geography General Definitions for Population
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- 1What is a pull factor?An attractive quality of a place which attracts migrants (weather, stable, education)
- 2What is a push factor?A negative quality of a place which encourages people to migrate away from it. (E.g. corrupt government)
- 3What is a refugee?A refugee is a person who has to leave their country to find safety -> natural disaster or war.
- 4What is an asylum seeker?An application by a refugee to permanently live in another country.
- 5What is an illegal immigrant?Someone without the legal right to move into an area or country.
- 6What is rural-urban migration?A type of internal migration -> people move from the country side to the city for better life (education, healthcare) and jobs.
- 7What is internal migration?Movement of people on a permanent basis within a country
- 8What is international migration?The movement of people on a permanent basis between countries
- 9What is transmigration/forced migration?Te relocation of a large number of people as a result of government plans.
- 10What is an economic migrant?When someone moves to another country to earn more money or to get a job.
- 11What does it mean to have an ageing population?A rise in the median age of the population with an increase of old dependents.
- 12What does it mean to have a youthful population?A fall in the median age of the population with an increase of young dependents.
- 13What is the dependent population?The section of the population who rely on the economically active (age groups 0-15 and 65+).
- 14What are the economically active?People between the ages of 16 and 65. They generally work and pay taxes and support the dependent population.
- 15What are old dependents?People over the age of 65. These people are normally retired.
- 16What are young dependents?People under the age of 16. They are normally being cared for at home or at school.
- 17What is a life expectancy? What is the world average?A life expectancy is the average number of years a group of individuals (usually done by country) are expected to live for depending on where and when they are born and spend their lives. The world average is 71 years.
- 18What is the Demographic Transition Model?The Demographic Transition Model (DTM) is the model used to categorise countries into different stages of development.
- 19What is Stage 1 of the DTM?Stage 1: High and fluctuating birth and death rates-only remote nomadic communities (E.g. Tribal groups)
- 20What is Stage 2 of the DTM?Stage 2: Death rate decreasing but birth rate is still high. Highest Natural Increase/population growth in LEDCs (E.g. Africa)
- 21What is Stage 3 of the DTM?Stage 3: Death rate is low and the birth rate is falling-NICs (E.g. Brazil)
- 22What is Stage 4 of the DTM?Stage 4: Both birth rate and death rate are low. Small natural increase/population growth-MEDCs (E.g. The USA and The UK).
- 23What is Stage 5 of the DTM?Stage 5: Birth rate is lower than the death rate. Natural decrease-only in a few countries (E.g. Japan).
- 241. What is emigration? 2. What is immigration? 3. What is migration?1. movement of people out of a country.
2. Movement of people into a country.
3. Permanent, seasonal or temporary movement of people from one location to another. - 25What is the definition of population?A group of individuals of one species living in one area.
- 26What is population density?The number of people living in a given area, usually measured in 1 square kilometre.
- 27What is a population explosion?A population explosion on when the world's population rapidly increases.
- 28What is a population growth rate?The rate at which a percentage of a population increases in a given year due to natural increase and/or migration.
- 29What is population distribution?How many people are spread across a country, region or world.
- 30What is Natural Increase?The excess of births over deaths
(Birth rate - Death rate)
expressed as '%'. - 31What is birth rate?The number of live births per 1000 people per year.
- 32What is death rate?The number of deaths per 1000 people per year.
- 33What is a fertility rate?The average number of babies born to women during their lifetime.
- 34What is an infant mortality rate?The proportion of children dying at birth or before their 1st birthday (per 1000 people per year).
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