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