Population and Migration
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| show | A group of people with a similar age.
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| show | The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.
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| show | a philosophical and policy stance that encourages lower birth rates by discouraging reproduction.
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| arithmetic density | show 🗑
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| show | Someone who has migrated to another country in hopes of being recognized as a refugee.
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| brain drain/gain | show 🗑
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| carrying capacity | show 🗑
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| show | refers to the geographic center of the population of a country
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| show | Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
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| crude birth rate (CBR) | show 🗑
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| crude death rate (CDR) | show 🗑
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| show | the tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution.
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| show | refers to the statistical data that describes the characteristics of a population, including factors such as age, gender, income, education, and ethnicity.
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| diaspora | show 🗑
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| show | the projected amount of time that it will take for a given population to double. It is based on the annual growth rate and is calculated by what is known as "The Rule of 70."
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| show | The number of working-age people (ages 15 to 64) divided by the number of persons 65 and older. Example: The world's elderly support ratio is about 9, because for every elderly person, there are 9 people of working age.
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| epidemiological transition | show 🗑
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| show | citizen of a poor country who is permitted to work in a country on a temporary basis, i.e. for farm labor.
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| internal migration | show 🗑
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| internally displace person (IDP) | show 🗑
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| show | Permanent movement from one country to another.
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| show | Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.
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| show | An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration (obstacle) or helps with migration (opportunity)
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| show | the movement of people within the same region of a nation
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| J-curve | show 🗑
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| show | The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical condition
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| show | Created the "Malthusian Theory," which states that population growth will eventually outpace food production, leading to widespread famine and societal collapse unless population growth is checked.
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| show | the tendency for certain types of people to migrate. Age, education, and other sociodemographic characteristics are migration selectivity factors
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| show | a catastrophic event resulting from natural processes of the Earth that causes significant disruption to human life, property, and the environment (hurricane, earthquake, volcanic eruption, etc).
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| naturalization | show 🗑
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| show | Someone who believes that the population of the world is growing too quickly for the scale of agricultural production to keep up.
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| overpopulation | show 🗑
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| show | the number of persons per unit of agricultural land.
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| show | a demographic trend where the proportion of older individuals in a population increases, typically due to longer life expectancies and declining birth rates.
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| show | graphical representations that show the distribution of various age groups in a population, typically divided by sex (male/female).
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| show | policies which are designed with the purpose of increasing the birth rate/fertility rate of an area
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| show | positive factors that attract people to new areas from other areas
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| push factor | show 🗑
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| show | set of principles that describe migration patterns and behaviors. Emphasizes that most migrants move only a short distance and that migration typically occurs in 11 steps.
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| redistricting | show 🗑
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| refugee | show 🗑
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| replacement fertility | show 🗑
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| S-curve | show 🗑
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| sex ratio | show 🗑
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| show | migration pattern where people move to a final destination in stages. Often starting from a rural area and gradually moving towards a larger urban center, rather than migrating directly to the final destination in one step.
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| total fertility rate (TFR) | show 🗑
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| show | the seasonal movement of livestock (herding) between mountains and lowland pastures. Typically, livestock is moved to the lowlands in the winters and to the highlands in the summers.
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| show | people who enter a country without proper documents.
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| show | occurs when the number of people who die and emigrate out of a country equals the number of people who are born or immigrate into a country
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