Population indicators Flashcards
What is the birth rate?
The number of births per thousand people per year
What is the death rate?
The number of deaths per thousand people per year
What is the life expectancy?
How long someone can expect to live
What is the natural increase?
Birth and death rate together show whether the population is increasing or decreasing (which rate is higher)
What is the fertility rate?
Number of children that the average women is predicted to have in her lifetime
What is migration?
Movement of people from one area to another
What is the infant mortality?
The number of children who die before reaching one in a year per thousand live births in the same year
What is the population pyramid?
A bar chart, arranged vertically that shows the population distribution by a category like age or sex
What is the dependency ratio?
A ratio used to show how many non-economically active people are supported by each economically active member of a population
What does it mean to be economically active?
This is the working population, usually from ages 16-60
Factors that could affect birth rates
Level of education, urbanisation, religion, status of women, wars, migration, medical care, natural disasters, nutrition, government intervention
Factors that could affect death rates
Inadequate housing, medical care, unhygienic conditions, wars, malnutrition, natural disasters, HIV/AIDS or other diseases
