demography Flashcards
Births (facts)
- birth rate is at a long term decline since 1900 (1900- 28.7, now- 11.2)
- fertility rate is declining (1846- 5.7, now- 1.49
- IMR (1900 was 154 per 1000, now it’s 4)
Births (reasons)
1. Harper
2. Shorter
- Education is most important in changing the minds of girls (++ Sharpe)
IMR is what causes birth rate decline - High IMR causes indifference
Deaths (facts)
- Death rate (1900 was 19, 2012 was 8.9)
- Life expectancy (males 1900 was 50, now it’s 80)
Deaths (reasons)
1. Harper
2. Walker
- Smoking decline was the biggest factor in DR decline
- class difference- those living in the poorest areas of the UK die on average 7 years earlier than those in the richest
Aging Population (facts)
Average age in the UK is increasing
- 1900 it was 34, now it’s 40
Hirsch (AP)
‘age pyramid’ is moving to equal sized blocks
- by 2041 there will be the same amount of 75 year olds as 5 year olds
Hunt (AP)
Age no longer determines who we are
Phillipson (AP)
Elderly people are not seen as useful to capitalism, so the state are unwilling to support them
Migration (facts)
In 2011, ethnic minorities made up 14% of the UK population
Globalisation and Migration (Held et al)
Increase in “world-wide interconnectedness”
Vertovec (G and M)
Super diversity- migrants now come from a wider range of countries
Cohen (G and M)
3 types of migrants
- citizens ( full rights)
- denizens (billionaires granted immunity)
- helots (‘slaves’, a reserve army of labour)
Eade
Hybrid identities
Hochschild
Feminisation of migration
- care/ domestic/ sex work is done mainly by migrant women
Shutes
40% of adult care nurses are migrants
