Populatioon Flashcards
Birth rate
The average number of children born in a year, for every thousand people in the population
Death rate
The average number of people who die in a year, out of every thousand people in the population
Densely populated area
A lot of people living in a small area
International migration
When people move form one country to another
Migrant
A person who moves from living in one place to live in another
Economic migrant
Someone who moves to another place for work, but who does not plan to live there permanently.
Migration
The movement of people from one place to another to live and/ or work
Push factors
Bad things about a place which mean that people are not attracted to there
Population density
The number of people living in a certain area, usually expressed as persons per square kilometre
Population distribution
The way people are spread out an across area
Population explosion
The very rapid growth of population that took place in the twentieth century, especially in the last half of the century.
Population increase
The rate the population increases by, when births and deaths have been taken into account
Pull fraction
Good things about a place that attracts people to live there
Pull factors
Something good which attracts people to migrate to an area
Push factors
Something bad which makes people want to migrate away from an area
