Population

Question 1

Demography

Answer 1

Study of the population

Question 2

Population density

Answer 2

Measures how closely people live, dividing the number of people in a place by a given area

Question 3

Crude birth rate

Answer 3

Babies born in a year for every 1000 people

Question 4

Crude death rate

Answer 4

Number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people

Question 5

Rate of natural increase

Answer 5

Statistic formed by the subtraction of the crude death rate from the crude birth rate; rate the population is increasing by without taking into account the movement of people (ex. immmigration)

Question 6

Doubling time

Answer 6

Found by dividing the growth rate by 70, amount of time needed for the population to double

Question 7

Total fertility rate

Answer 7

Number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime

Question 8

Replacement rate

Answer 8

TFR needed to ensure the population continues to grow, 2.1

Question 9

Population momentum

Answer 9

Tendency for a population to grow even when TFR drops below replacement rate, a result of larger numbers of child-bearing individuals compared to dying older individuals

Question 10

Population projection

Answer 10

Prediction about the future population based on current trends

Question 11

GNI

Answer 11

Gross National Income, the total value of all goods and services produced in a country together with the balance of income from and payments to other countries

Question 12

PPP

Answer 12

Purchasing Power Parity, a measurement of the number of units of a country’s currency needed to buy the same amount of goods in a country as 1 US dollar could buy

Question 13

Demographic transition model

Answer 13

Pattern of population growth as a country develops

Question 14

Megacity

Answer 14

City of 10 million or more people

Question 15

Slums

Answer 15

Concentration of very poor people in a city

Question 16

Urban sprawl

Answer 16

Spread of a city across a large area of land, often in an unplanned way

Question 17

Forced migrant

Answer 17

Condition in which a person has no choice but to relocate

Question 18

Refugees

Answer 18

Those who are seeking refuge from danger or persecution residing outside of their country of nationality/origin, a status that provides them with certian legal rights

Question 19

Asylum seekers

Answer 19

Refugees whose claims are still being considered

Question 20

IDPs

Answer 20

Internally Displaced Persons, those who have been forcibly relocated within their own nation

Question 21

Victims of human trafficking

Answer 21

People who have been forcibly removed because of deception and/or coercion, a form of modern slavery

Question 22

Life expectancy

Answer 22

Average number of years a person is expected to live for

Question 23

Dependency ratio

Answer 23

Dependents divided by the economically active

Question 24

Ageing ratio

Answer 24

The old (over 65) divided by the economically active

Question 25

Demographic dividend

Answer 25

Bulge in the number of adults in a population that occurs over time due to a gradually declining fertility rate