Demography

Question 0

What is the birth rate?

Answer 0

The number of live births per 1000 people in 1 year

Question 1

What is demography?

Answer 1

The study of the number of births, deaths and migration and how this affects the structure of the population

Question 2

What is fertility rate?

Answer 2

How many children women (15-44) have per 1000 people in 1 year

Question 3

What is death rate?

Answer 3

The number of deaths in a year per 1000 people

Question 4

What is emigration?

Answer 4

The number of people to leave the UK

Question 5

What is immigration?

Answer 5

The number of people to enter the uk

Question 6

What is net migration?

Answer 6

The difference between immigration and emigration

Question 7

Is the uk population increasing or decreasing?

Answer 7

Increasing - because of migration

Question 8

A statistic to show migration increasing?

Answer 8

1950s - natural change 98%
- migration 2%

2001-2004 - migration - accounted for 2/3 of the increase in population

Question 9

When were the main fluctuations of birth rates in the uk?

Answer 9

during ww1, during ww2

Question 10

When were the ‘baby-booms’

Answer 10

After ww1, after ww2, the late 1980s and early 1990s

Question 11

Why are birth rates low in the 21st century?

Answer 11

Having children became more expensive, women’s roles have changed in society, all children are likely to survive so only need to have a few

Question 12

What statistics show that women tend to now have children later?

Answer 12

• the no of children born at 40 and over has doubled in the last 20 years
• the highest rate of fertility is found in the age group 30-34

Question 13

What is life expectancy?

Answer 13

How long someone is expected to live.

in the uk it is 78

Question 14

How has society socially constructed our view of old age?

Answer 14

We believe it to e the worst time period in our lives in which to live

Question 15

What statistics show there are less children around now?

Answer 15

In 1821, 27% of the population were under 10

In 2004 only 12% of the population were under 10

Question 16

What statistics show there are more old people in our population now?

Answer 16

In 1821 only 1% were over 80 but now in 2004 4% of the population are over 80

Question 17

Why has life expectancy improved?

Answer 17

Improved public health, medical technology and practise, rising living standard, and better care and welfare facilities

Question 18

Why is there a decline in birth rates?

Answer 18

Reliable birth control, economic liability (expensive), childhood seen as a special time

Question 19

Negative consequences of declining birth rate?

Answer 19

Education; schools shut down
Economy; not enough children to fill jobs, retirement age raised
Services; maternity wards at risk of closing
Family; created the dual earner family, no family member stays at home

Question 20

Positive consequences of declining birth rate?

Answer 20

Dependancy ratio; better for the governement

Question 21

Consequences of migration in the uk?

Answer 21

The net migration is stopping the population from declining, is creating a more ethnically diverse society, greater diversity in family patterns

Question 22

Why is migration important in the uk?

Answer 22

The current birth rate will not sustain our population. We need immigrant women who tend to have more children

Question 23

What is estimated by 2031?

Answer 23

Half of the population growth will be from migration

Question 24

What is the net migration rate?

Answer 24

2.59 migrants for every 1000th of the population

Question 25

What is a push factor?

Answer 25

A reason that would cause you to want to emigrate from a country eg war

Question 26

What is a pull factor?

Answer 26

Something that would want you to immigrate to that country eg nice weather

Question 27

What statistic shows that the ageing population are taking over the population?

Answer 27

In 2005, 59% of women aged 75 and over were living alone