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chapter 16

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Immigrate   To move permanently to a country other then one's native country  
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Emigrate   to leave your country of origin to live permanently in another country  
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Demography   study of population numbers, distribution, trends, and issues  
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Birth rate   number of births per 1000 people  
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Death rate   number of deaths per 1000 people  
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Natural increase rate   difference between the birth rate and the death rate of a country  
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Immigration rate   number of new Canadians who have immigrated here from another country per 1000 people of Canada's population  
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Emigration rate   number of people per 1000 population in one year who emigrated  
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Net migration rate   difference between people immigrating to a country and people emigrating from the same country  
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Population growth rate   measurement that combines both natural increase and net migration to calculate the overall growth of a country's population  
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Doubling time   (demographics)how long it would take for a country's population to double at the country's rate of population growth  
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Rule of 70   divide 70 by the population growth rate to estimate how many years it will take for the country's population to double  
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Dependency load   proportions of the population that is not in the work force; total number of people 14 and under +65 and over  
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Population pyramid   graph that depicts population distribution by age and sex  
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Emigrant   a person who leaves there home country to live permanently in another  
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Immigrant   a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country  
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