Demographics

Question 1

What is Net migration

Answer 1

The difference between immigration into and emigration from an area in a year.Negative net migration when number of emigrations are higher than number of immigration.Positive other way round.

Question 2

what is infant mortality rate

Answer 2

The number of deaths of children under the age of 1.

Question 3

what is fertility rate

Answer 3

The average number of births a single women would have in her lifetime.

Question 4

what is birth rate

Answer 4

The total number of live births per 1000 of the population.

Question 5

what is death rate

Answer 5

Number of deaths in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.

Question 6

what is the dependency ratio

Answer 6

Number of dependents aged zero to 14 and over the age of 65, compared with the total population aged 15 to 64

Question 7

what is the replacement level

Answer 7

Amount of fertility needed to keep the population the same from generation to generation.