Matching Pairs Demographic Terms extendedOnline version here are the key words and their definitions that we will use in this population unit by Miss T Jack 1 Immigration Rate (IR) 2 Birth Rate (BR) 3 Rapid Growth pyramid 4 Slow Growth pyramid 5 Death Rate (DR) 6 Stable/declining Growth pyramid 7 Replacement Rate 8 Rate of Natural Increase (RNI) 9 Demography 10 Refugee 11 Life Expectancy 12 Emigration Rate (ER) 13 Net Migration Rate (NMR) 14 Dependency Load 15 Rule of 70 16 Working Cohort the difference between people coming (IR) and people leaving (ER) very few babies are being born and more people who have lived long lives are dying of old age all ages are roughly equal; fewer babies are now being born; representative of Canada the formula to determine how quickly a population doubles in size the study of human population numbers, distribution, trends, and issues. someone who flees their homeland for fear of their life but will return home when it is safe to do so the # of people who permanently leave their home country with the intention of staying there how long a person is predicted to live. has many babies being born and few people living a long life the ages of 15-64 in a population pyramid that are not considered part of the dependency load the relationship between the # of births and the size of the population. the (“magic”) number of 2.1 children to keep the population stable the percentage of a country’s population who are younger than 15 and older than 65 (i.e. financially rely on others) the # of people who permanently move to another country the relationship between the # of deaths and size of the population. the difference between births (BR) and deaths (DR) that tells us if the population is growing without migration
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