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Flashcards by tamsinnbailey, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by tamsinnbailey
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| Question | Answer |
| What is meant be life expectancy? | The average number of years a person is expected to live |
| What is meant by crude death rate? | The ratio of the number of deaths per annum to the total population, expressed per 1000 people |
| What is the total fertility rate? | The number of births to a women over her lifetime |
| What is the crude birth rate? | The ratio of the number of births per annum to the total population, expressed per 1000 people |
| What is meant by natural increase? | The excess of births over death |
| What is measured by the infant mortality rate? | The number of deaths of children under 1 year old per 1000 live births |
| What is measured by the maternal mortality rate? | The deaths of women in childbirth per 100,000 live births |
| What is in-migration? | The flow of people over a given time period (year/decade) into a country or area, on either a temporary or permanent basis |
| What is out-migration? | The flow of people over a given period of time (year/decade) out of a country or area, either on a temporary or permanent basis (opposite to in-migration) |
| What is net population change? | The change in a country over a period of time when both natural change + migration change have been taken into account (expressed as number/percentage) |
| What is migration balance? | The excess of in-migration over out-migration (or visa versa) |
| What is migration? | The movement of people from one administrative area to another, which results in the change of permanent residence |
| How is population data normally collected? | Using ten-yearly censuses |
| What total fertility rate is needed for MEDCs to maintain the level of population? | 2.1 children per woman aged 15-45 per 1000 women |
| What was the total fertility rate in Italy in 2005? | 1.3 |
| What was the total fertility rate in the U.K in 2005? | 1.7 |
| What was the total fertility rate in Islamic countries in 2005? | 4.1 (average) |
| The population of Yemen is projected to increase by what percentage by 2050? | 121% |
| What percentage of the world's population growth have Africa + Asia contributed since 1950? | 81% |
| What percentage of the world's population growth has Europe contributed since 1950? | 4.4% |
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