Population and Migration Flashcards
What is the current population trend of fertility rates at the global scale?
Falling
What is the difference between fertility rates in more developed countries and less developed countries?
Higher in Less Developed countries, lower in more developed countries
What are the top ten countries by population in 2022?
China
India
US
Indonesia
Pakistan
Nigeria
Brazil
Bangladesh
Russian Federation
Mexico
What are the three deterrminants of population growth or decline?
Birth rate, death rate, net migration
What is birth rate?
births over amount of people in the country times 1000
What is death rate??
deaths over amount of people in the country times 1000
What is net migration?
number of immigrants compared to the number of emigrants
What is an emigrant?
leaving a country
What is an immigrant?
coming to a country
What is a rate of natural increase?
deaths vs births
What is a total fertility rate?
average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime
What is a life expectancy?
The average period that a person is expected to live
What is the replacement fertility rate?
2.1, number of children that need to be born in order to stay at a constant population
What is the dependency ratio?
below 14 + above 65 over everything in between
