Created by Beccy Stead
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Question | Answer |
What is birth rate? | The number of births per 1000 of the total population per year. |
Examples of birth rates? | Niger=55 per 1000 Particularly high UK=12 per 1000 Relatively low |
What factors influence birth rate? | Infant mortality Education Economic development Cost-benefit of children Attitudes to women Religion and culture Government policies Welfare provision Structure of the population Age of marriage |
Why does infant mortality effect birth rate? | -There is a lower chance of children surviving -Have more children for more help working on farms for example Link: cost-benefit of children, economic development |
Why does education effect birth rate? | -Reduces family size -Consumer society -Contraception -Women working -Sanitation and hand washing reduce disease |
Why does the cost-benefit of children effect birth rate? | -Look after in old age -Expensive (£200,000 in UK to raise a child) -Agriculture (labour) |
Why do attitudes to women effect birth rate? | If the male is dominant then they might have more children than the woman wanted |
Why does religion and culture effect birth rate? | -Promote large families, continue teachings -Against contraception |
Why do government policies effect birth rate? | Pronatal (France) Antinatal (China, Kerala) |
Why does welfare provision effect birth rate? | -pensions -Care by family or by governement |
Why does the structure of the population and the age of marriage effect birth rate? | Younger=more time=morechildren |
What is death rate? | The average number of deaths per 1000 per year. |
Factors influencing mortality? | -Disease outbreak (HIV and Aids) -Natural disasters -Health care -Level of development -Diet -Drug & alcohol abuse -Education -Climate (spread of diseases, droughts) -Structure of population (older=dying more) -Sanitation (stop spread of cholera) -Medical advances (penicillin) -Communication & infrastructure (get to hospitals) -War |
What is fertility rate? | The average number of children a woman will give birth to in her lifetime. |
What is infant mortality rate? | The average number of deaths per 1000 births before the age of 1 per year. |
What is life expectancy? | The average age a baby is expected to live to. |
What is migration rate? | The number of immigrants compared to the number of emigrants in an area per 1000 per year. (positive=more people entering) |
What is population density? | The number of people per unit area. |
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