Demography Flashcards
(5 cards)
Population growth
Decline in birth rate-contraception
decline in family size
increase in life expectancy-medical advances
increase a migration
Migration
Can influence make up a population
Leads to specialists for job roles mixed raced marriages high fatality rates so more demand on resources
Reasons for decline in birth rate
1.Children are expensive compulsory education and strict label laws mean children no longer a source of income
2. Restrict opportunities children prevent risks
3. Declining infant mortality rate less need to have additional children
4. Reliable contraception
5. Increase employment opportunities for women women prioritize education over having children
6. Society has become more child centres move from quantity to quality in regards to raising children
Reasons for decline in death rate
- Improve sanitation sewage and purification of water clean air has reduced illness
- Safety legislation work is safer as laws in place
- Nutrition improved
- Healthier lifestyles
- Free health care
- Improved healthcare like vaccines
Immigration key trends
1.Second world war biggest immigrant group to UK was Irish due to potato famine moved to flee-starvation
2. Immigrants from Caribbean and South Asia Britain invited to help work and rebuild economy more diversity
3. Restricted non-wide immigration conservative party wanted to reduce immigrants
4. European Union people in Eastern Europe States had right to live and work in Britain