Test 1 (Migration) Flashcards
What is exponential growth?
Increasing or accelerating rate of growth
What is crude birth rate?
Number of births per 1,000 people in a population
What is crude death rate?
Number of deaths per 1,000 people in a population
What is annual growth rate?
Found by subtracting crude death rate by the crude birth rate and expressed as a percentage
What is general fertility rate?
Number of births per 1,000 women between the ages of 15-49
What is age specific birth rate?
Number of births per 1,000 women of any specific year group
What is standardized birth rate?
A birth rate for a region on the basis that its age composition is the same as for the whole country
What is total fertility rate?
The average number of births per 1,000 women of childbearing age
What is infant mortality rate?
The number of deaths of children less than 1-year-old per 1,000 live births
What is child mortality rate?
The number of deaths in children under the age of 5 per 1,000 children
What is life expectancy?
Average number of years that a person can be expected to live from birth
What are population pyramids?
They show us a lot about the age, and gender structure of a population and the population growth. They help in finding how many services and facilities will be needed in the future
What is older dependency ratio?
Number of people aged 65 and over for every 100 people aged 20-64.
Measures the working population and the dependent population.
The formula is: Population aged <15 + population >64 (the dependents) over Population aged 16-64 (the economically active)
What is DEADER?
- Details
- Examples
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Evaluation
- Recommendations
What is family planning?
Attempts to limit family size
What is migration?
Movement of people, involving a change of residence. Usually for an extended period of time (more than a year)
What are some types of migration?
- Internal (within country)
- External (international)
- Voluntary
- Forced
What are remittances?
Transfer of money or goods from foreign workers to their hime countries, usually to their families
What is brain drain?
The great minds migrate to other countries, usually rich.
What is a refugee?
Person fleeing home country to escape danger
What is an asylum seeker?
People who seek refugee status in another country
What is an economic migrant?
A person seeking job opportunities
What is an Internally Displaced Person (IDP)?
People who flee their homes but remain in the country
What is tenure?
The way in which the rights, restrictions and responsibilities that people have with respect to land (and property) are held
What is pro-natalist?
The country encourages the population to have children to increase population
What is anti-natalist?
The country wants to limit or decrease population. They can do this using contraceptives, sterilisation and other measures
