Population Flashcards
What are human factors that cause high population density?
- Access to services, e.g. health and education
- High Employment and higher paying jobs
- Good communications, e.g. transport
- Good technology
- Political stability
- Better housing
- Better life
- Lots of shops and entertainment
- Relation already moved
- Low crime rates
What are physical factors that cause high population density?
- Fertile soil and flat land
- Varied/mild climate
- Many natural resources, e.g. coal and oil
- Few natural disasters
What are human factors that cause low population density?
- Poor communications, e.g. transport
- High unemployment/ low employment opportunities with low pay
- Lack of services, e.g. health and education
- Lack of technology
- Civil unrest/war
- Hard work
- High crime rates
What are physical factors that cause low population density?
- Extreme climates, e.g. too hot/cold
- Many natural resources
- Poor soil
- Area isolated/remote
- Starvation
What is birth rate?
The number of births per 1000 people per year
What is death rate?
The number of deaths per 1000 people in a year
What is infant mortality rate?
The annual number of deaths of infants less than one year old per 1000 live births
what is life expectancy?
The number of years that an individual is expected to live as determined by statistics
What is natural increase?
The number of extra people (the birth rate minus the death rate. and is usually given as a percentage
How does population increase?
The birth rate is higher than the death rate
What does a population pyramid with a wide base represent?
A developing country
What does a population pyramid with a Narrow base represent?
A developed country
What does a narrow or wide top of a population pyramid
represent?
- Narrow- low life expectancy and high death rate
- Wide-high life expectancy and low death rate
What does a narrow or wide base of a population pyramid
represent?
- Narrow-low birth rate
- Wide-high birth rate
What are the three age factors that a population pyramid are split into?
- 0-16 young independents
- 16-65 economically active
- 65+ elderly dependants