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What is death rate?

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The number of deaths per 1000 people per year

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What is birth rate?

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The number of live births per 1000 people per year

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What is fertility rate?

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The average number of children a woman will have within the fertile age

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What is infant mortality rate?

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The number of children who die before their first birthday, per 1000 live births

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What is life expectancy?

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The average age a person can expect to live

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What is migration rate?

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The difference between the number of people who migrate in and the number of people who migrate out per 100,000 of the population

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What is population density?

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The number of people per square kilometre. Calculated by total population divided by the size of the area

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What is natural change in population?

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The change in population because of a difference in birth rate and death rate

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What is zero growth rate?

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When the population is neither increasing nor decreasing

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What does the demographic transition model show?

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How the population of a country changes over time through stages.

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What do the three lines on a DTM model represent?

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Birth rate, death rate, population

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What are the stages known as?

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1-High fluctuating
2-Early expanding
3-Late expanding
4-Low fluctuating
5-Declining
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What happens at high fluctuating (stage 1) ?

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Birth rate and death rate are high and fluctuating, causing the population to remain low and stable

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What factors influence high fluctuating?

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High birth rate: no contraception, poor education, high infant mortality
High death rate: low life expectancy, poor healthcare, disease and starvation

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Who fits into high fluctuating?

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Tribes

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What factors influence early expanding?

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High birth rate: poor education, no contraception, child labour
Fall in death rates: improved healthcare, sanitation and diet

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Who fits into early expanding?

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LEDCs such as Afghanistan and Nepal

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What happens at late expanding?

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Birth rate declines rapidly, death rate continues to fall but steadier - population increase at a slower rate

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What factors affect late expanding?

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Fall in birth rate: introduction of contraceptives, improvements in education, less child labour, more women work, government schemes (such as China’s one child policy)

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What countries fit into into late expanding?

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Developing LEDCs eg. BRIC nations

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What happens at low fluctuating (stage 4) ?

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Birth and death rate slightly fluctuate - population remains stable

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Why does low fluctuation occur?

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Luxury, material possessions means there’s less money to have children, fewer advantages to having children (eg. child labour)

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What countries fit into low fluctuating?

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Most MEDCs eg. USA and most of Europe

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What happens at declining population (stage 5) ?

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Birth rates fall below stable death rates - causing the population to decrease

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Why does the birth rate fall (declining) ?
Children are expensive to raise and many people have dependant elderly relatives, so look after them instead
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Why does death rate remain steady, despite advances in health care?
There are more elderly people, so more die of old age
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What countries are experiencing a declining population?
Japan, Germany, Italy
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What happens at early expanding (stage 2) ?
Death rate falls but birth rate remains high causing a population increase
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What is a greying population?
When more people live longer so the population live longer
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What problems are associated with declining populations (stage 5) ?
* Few children to replace the ageing workforce causing the economy to slow down * Reduction in spending from a smaller population * Fewer taxpayers so there's less money for services
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What problems occur within an overpopulated country?
They don't have enough resources to cope with the rising populations which leads to poverty and famine
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Why did the UK's population fluctuate and remain low between prehistoric times and 1760?
* Poor diet and hygiene * Diseases such as the Black Death and cholera * Wars
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Why did the population grow rapidly in the 18th and 19th century?
Improvements in farming and medicine reduced hunger and disease. Birth rate remained high but was no longer cancelled out by death rates
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What evenst in the 20th century caused death rates to briefly rise?
WW1 and WW2
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What is happening in the uk today in regards to the DTM?
Birth rate and death rate are equal | Pensioners outnumber children
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What is predicted to happen by 2030 in the UK?
A quarter of the population will be over 65
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How is the DTM useful?
* Generalises how population can change * Its easy to compare different countries * Helps governments forecast population change and decide on policies
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Why has the DTM become dated and often incorrect?
The original data was from developed Western European countries. This often doesn't fit what happens in other countries that may develop faster
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How can culture and religion affect the DTM?
Catholic countries would have higher birth rates as they condemn contraception
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Why is it hard to determine the exact time a country will enter a different stage?
There is no time scale to the DTM, as countries enter at different times and progress at different rates
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What are some countries doing to combat population issues?
Introducing control policies: •Encouraging population growth by subsidised childcare •Discouraging population growth through sterilisation and 'one child policies'
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Why do countries, particularly African countries, have high death rates?
HIV/AIDS, malaria and other infectious diseases kill millions each year
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Why is Sudan's population stalling?
A civil war leads to the death of many men and women of reproductive age. People also flee the country as asylum seekers
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What is population structure and how is it represented?
% of males and females in different age groups. Usually shown by horizontal bar graphs with males on the left and females on the right
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What does a country's population structure look like at stage 1?
A wide based triangle, showing a high birth and death rate
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What happens between stage 1 and 2 of the DTM to alter the population structure?
Falling death rates cause the triangle to widen towards the top
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What happens to the shape of the population structure at stage 3?
Falling birth rates and death rates form a more rectangular shape that curves towards the top
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What does a decline in population look like on a population structure?
A large bulge in adults, larger than the amount of children being born
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How does internal migration affect population structure?
Young adults move from rural to urban areas in search of opportunity. This is known as brain drain
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How can brain drain affect birth rate in rural areas?
With less people of reproductive age in rural areas, less people have children thus reducing birth rate
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What are push factors?
Negative things that make people move out of an area
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What are pull factors?
Positive factors that attract people to a new place
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What are migration obstacles?
Factors that make migration more difficult, like costs or visas
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What are migration opportunities?
Opportunities people encounter before they reach their destination, such as jobs
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What is the dependency ratio?
Proportion of population that is supported by the working population
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What does a high dependency ratio mean?
Greater dependency on workers, LEDCs have high dependency ratios
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What is the formula for dependency ratio?
Young people + Old people divided by working population
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What are the social implications of an ageing population?
* Pressure on public services - hospitals and hospices * Population decline * Longer working life as pensions are altered
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What are the economic impacts of an ageing population?
* Reduced work force * Increased taxes - due to pensions * Spending - improving economy
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What the social impacts of a youthful population?
* Pressure on services - school | * Rapid population growth
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What are the economic impacts of a youthful population?
* Too few jobs - causing unemployment | * Increased poverty - children born in to already poor families
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How can the elderly affect the politics of a country?
Elderly issues become more important than young adults, so parties direct their policies towards the elderly
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How are countries combatting ageing populations?
Encouraging immigration of working people and trying to increase birth rate
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How can countries increase birth rate?
Incentives - such as longer maternity leave and child benefit
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How is a youthful population managed?
* Controlling birth rate - sterilisation or one child policies * Limiting immigration * Encouraging contraception
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How does housing alter as you move further away from the inner city?
* Becomes less dense | * Larger individual houses in rural compared to flats in urban
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How does ethnicity change as you move further away from the inner city?
High proportion of ethnic minorities in urban areas, decreasing as you move further away
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How does age structure alter as you move further away from urban areas?
* Mainly younger people, students and workers, in urban areas * Families in suburbs * Mainly elderly in urban
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How does wealth alter as you move further away from inner city areas?
* Inner city is home to poorest and wealthiest | * However general rule is that as you move away from city people get wealthier
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What sort of employment do you find in inner city areas?
Students, unemployment and semi skilled workers
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Why is there a high proportion of tertiary sector workers in rural areas?
Commuter villages allow them to work from home or travel to work
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How does the amount of services change as you move away from the city centre?
The inner city has the highest provision of services, gradually declining as you move further away from the city centre
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What are the environmental problems in the inner city?
* Old, poor housing provides poor living conditions * Graffiti, Vandalism and rubbish * High air pollution
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What social problems arise in urban areas?
* Tension between different ethnicities | * High crime rate
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What economic problems arise in urban areas?
* Industrial decline leads to high unemployment | * Poverty - which can lead to poor nutrition, health and education

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