Population Definitions

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What is the crude birth rate?
Number of births per 1,000 people per year
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What is the crude death rate?
Number of deaths per 1,000 people per year
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What is natural increase?
Difference between the birth rate and the death rate
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What is life expectancy?
The average number of years from birth someone can expect to live
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What is population density?
Number of people living per square mile of the country
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One factor that can effect the birth rate of a country...
Access to education
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One factor that effects the mortality rate...
Ageing population
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What is the life expectancy of Singapore
83
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What is the population of Thailand predicted to be in 2050?
66.1 million
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What is the fertility rate of UK?
1.9
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What percentage of woman use modern contraception in Niger?
12%
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What does the Demographic Transition Model (DTM) show?
Changes in the country's population growth over time
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What is the first stage of the DTM called?
High stationary
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What kind of population does a country that is in stage 5 of the DTM have?
Ageing population
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What is an example of a country in stage 3 of the DTM?
Thailand
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One reason the birth rate of the UK is low...
They want smaller families
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What does a tall population pyramid show?
High life expectancy
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What is the name for the population pyramid that represent stage 1?
Progressive
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What are young dependents?
0-15 year olds that don't work
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A social implication of a youthful population?
Overpopulation
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An economic implication of an elderly population?
Tax rises
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What is the crude death rate?

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Number of deaths per 1,000 people per year

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What is natural increase?

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What is life expectancy?

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What is population density?

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