Population Keywords Flashcards
A group of people within an area
Population
The spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume
Distribution
An area with lots of people living in it
Densely Populated
An area that has a few people living in it
Sparsely Populated
The number of births in a year per 1,000 population
Birth rate
The number of deaths in a year per 1,000 population
Death rate
The number of babies out of every thousand that dies before the age of one
Infant mortality
The statistics of a population e.g. age, income, he statistics of a population e.g. age, income, education
Demographics
The transition of high birth rates and death rates to low birth rates and death rates that occurs as part of the economic development of a country from a pre industrial to a post industrial economy
Demographic transition model
The movement of people from one country or locality to another
Migration
Things that make people want to leave an area
Push factors
Things that encourage a person to an area
Pull factors
A person who leaves one country to permanently settle in another
Immigrant
A person who leaves his/her country of origin to seek residence in another country
Migrant
When a person leaves their country of origin to settle in another country
Emigrate
A person who has been forced to leave his/her home because of fear of persecution
Refugee
A measure showing the number of dependents, aged zero to 14 and over the age of 65, to the total population, aged 15 to 64
Dependency ratio
A bar graph showing the population divided into males and females in different age groups
Population pyramid
The process of obtaining information from every member of a population
Census
When the average age of a population is getting older
Ageing Population
The average number of years a person is expected to live
Life expectancy
The total fertility that exactly balances births and deaths, so the population growth is zero
Replacement rate
Growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size.
Exponential growth
