Demography
- Created by: maddieecarr
- Created on: 01-06-22 09:43
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- Demography
- Birth
- Trend: Birth rate is falling
- Reasons why
- Changes in the position of women
- Better education and employment
- Access to contraceptionand abortion
- Declining infant mortality rate
- Rising cost of children
- Fewer children being born due to child-centredness
- Changes in the position of women
- Death
- Trend: death rate is decreasing
- Reasons why
- Improved nutrition and diet
- Better healthcare and understanding of disease
- Decline in dangerous/ manual work
- Public health measures introduced
- Migration
- Trend: Migration (both immigration and emigration) are increasing
- Reasons why
- Pull factors
- Better living standards or wages
- Push factors
- High unemployment, war or poor living standards
- Globalisation
- Ease of access to other countries
- Pull factors
- Effects of migration
- Increased population
- Age structure
- Ageing population
- Trend: population is ageing
- Reasons why
- Lower infant mortality rate
- Declining fertility rates
- Increasing life expectancy
- Effects of an ageing population
- More lone person households and extended families
- Higher consumption of public services
- Increasing dependency ratio
- More ageism / age related discrimination
- Birth
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