Demographic Vocab

Question 1

demography

Answer 1

study of population numbers, distribution, trends, and issues

Question 2

birth rate

Answer 2

yearly number of live births per 1000

Question 3

death rate

Answer 3

yearly number of deaths per 1000

Question 4

natural increase rate

Answer 4

difference between the birth rate and death rate

Question 5

infant mortality rate

Answer 5

yearly number of deaths under 1 year old per 1000

Question 6

child mortality rate

Answer 6

yearly number of deaths under 8 year old per 1000

Question 7

immigrate

Answer 7

to move permanently (to live) in a country other than your own native country

Question 8

immigration rate

Answer 8

number of new Canadians who have immigrated here from another country per 1000 of Canada’s population

Question 9

immigrant

Answer 9

person who moves to a new country with the intention of settling

Question 10

refugee

Answer 10

one of the categories of immigrants to Canada

Question 11

emigrate

Answer 11

to leave your country of origin to live elsewhere

Question 12

net migration rate

Answer 12

difference between people moving TO a country and people moving elsewhere from that same country

Question 13

push factor

Answer 13

something that makes people want to leave their country and move to another (e.g. discrimination, unemployment)

Question 14

pull factor

Answer 14

something that attracts people to another country (e.g. freedom of speech, educational opportunities)

Question 15

emigration rate

Answer 15

yearly number of people per 1000 who move elsewhere

Question 16

population growth rate

Answer 16

measurement that combines both natural increase and net migration to calculate the overall growth of a country’s population

Question 17

life expectancy

Answer 17

average lifespan of a population

Question 18

baby boom

Answer 18

the large rise in the birth rate in the late 1940s and 1950s experienced by many countries in Europe and North America

Question 19

doubling time

Answer 19

how long it would take for a country’s population to double at that country’s current rate of population growth

Question 20

population pyramid

Answer 20

graph that depicts population distribution by age/sex

Question 21

population density

Answer 21

figure calculated by dividing the population of a region by that region’s area

Question 22

population distribution

Answer 22

pattern showing where people live in an area