The rate of urbanisation varies across the world, what is it like in a HIC?
over 60%
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The rate of urbanisation varies across the world, what is it like in a NEE?
around 50%
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The rate of urbanisation varies across the world, what is it like in a LIC?
20%
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what is natural increase?
more people move to the cities age 18-35, they have children, the population becomes younger, the death rate lowers
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What is rural-urban migration
people within a country moving from countryside to cities
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What are some examples of push factors?
Poorly paid farm work, Poor acsess to services
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What are some examples of pull factors
more job opportunities, better education opportunities
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What are the types of megacity and what are they like?
Slow-growing over 70% of the population live in cities , growing 40-50% of the population live in urban areas and rapid-growing under 50% of people live in urban areas
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What is the definition of a megacity?
Population of the city is 10 million or more
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Where is Rio?
The east coast of Brazil- good for trade and tourism
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Why is Rio globally important?
Has the world heritage site, world cup in 2014, olympics in 2016,very important port, cultural capital for Brazil
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What is rural-urban migration in Rio?
happens because of economic opportunities in RIo, there is lots of drought in other parts of Brazil and there are better social opportunities in Rio
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What is international migration in Rio?
Rio can gain higher skilled workers and is very popular with people moving from South Korea and Portugal
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Natural increase is happening in Rio because...
It is a christian area and there is a high BR (young population), there has been many healthcare improvements which lower DR
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The rate of urbanisation varies across the world, what is it like in a NEE?
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around 50%
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The rate of urbanisation varies across the world, what is it like in a LIC?
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