Population & Migration Keywords

Population a group of people within an area

Distribution the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume

Densely an area with lots of people living in it

Sparsley an area that has a few people living in it

Birth rate number of births in a year per 1,000 population

Death rate number of deaths in a year per 1,000 population

Infant mortality the number of babies out of every thousand that dies before the age of one

Demographics the statistics of a population e.g. age, income, education

Demographic transition model the transition of high birth rates and death rates to low birth rates and death rates that occurs as part of the economic development of a country from a pre industrial to a post industrial economy

Migration the movement of persons from one country or locality…