Unit Three Demographics Flashcards
Birth, death, immigration, emigration rates
of births ➗ total population ✖️1000
Number of births/deaths/immigrants/emigrants per 1000 people.
Net migration
Difference between immigrants and emigrants
Natural increase
Difference between birth rate and death rate
TGR
Natural increase+ net migration
Push factors
Make people want to leave a country ex taxes climate brain drain
Pull factors
Make people want to come to a country ex climate healthcare freedom jobs and beauty
Ethnic neighbourhoods
Neighbourhoods or areas dominated but one culture
Canada’s immigration history
Big surges in history
Potato famine-1840s Irish immigrants arrived after and decease wiped out their main source of food
Great western expansion-1920s Canada offered free land in prairies, ww1 brought in refugees,Europeans tried to escape Russian communism
The Great Depression-1930s reduced immigration
Open door policy-1940s baby boom
population
Canada’s population is around 37 million. Most of our population is in southern Ontario