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 Death Rate (DR) 2 Refugee 3 Rate of Natural Increase (RNI) 4 Birth Rate (BR) 5 Net Migration Rate (NMR) 6 Slow Growth pyramid 7 Replacement Rate 8 Demography 9 Emigration Rate (ER) 10 Stable/declining Growth pyramid 11 Immigration Rate (IR) 12 Working Cohort 13 Rapid Growth pyramid 14 Rule of 70 15 Life Expectancy 16 Dependency Load 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 someone who flees their homeland for fear of their life but will return home when it is safe to do so the relationship between the # of deaths and size of the population. all ages are roughly equal; fewer babies are now being born; representative of Canada 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 study of human population numbers, distribution, trends, and issues. 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 the difference between births (BR) and deaths (DR) that tells us if the population is growing without migration the formula to determine how quickly a population doubles in size the # of people who permanently leave their home country with the intention of staying there