Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Demography
- what is demography?
- demography is the study of
characteristics of human population
such as their size and structure and
how these change overtime
- demographic changes in the UK include
- > declining birth rate, fertility
rate, infant mortality rate, death
rate, increased life expectancy
and an ageing population
- birth rate
- number of live births per 1000 of the population per year
- why its declining?
- changes in the position of women,
decline in infant mortality rate,
children becoming an economic
liability and child centredness
- Death rate
- number of deaths per 1000 of the population per year
- why its declining
- improved nutrition, medical improvements,
public health measures, environmental
improvements and other social changes
- life expectancy
- refers to how long on
average a person is given
to live
- death rates have
fallen so life
expectancy is longer
- class, gender and
regional differences
may affect this
- ageing population
- a population where the
average age is getting
higher with a greater
proportion of the
population over
retirement age and a
smaller proportion of
young people
- effects of this are
- public services being
overused, one person
pensioner households,
the dependency ration
increase
- migration
- migration refers to
movement of people
place to place, this
can be internal,
within a society or
international
- immigration> movement
into a country, emigration>
movement out of a country
- net migration> difference between the
numbers immigrating and the numbers
emigrating and is expressed as net in/decrease
due to migration