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Migration
In addition to birth and death rates migration can also affect the size of the p
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does immigration mean? | Movement into an area or society |
| Emigration | to move out |
| Net migration | the difference in numbers between those immigrating and emigrating. |
| Historically more people have?? | left the uk than joined it. |
| Emigrants have mainly gone to USA, Canada, Australia and South Africa why? | Econmic reasons, better job, labour shortages, higher standards of living. |
| Why have the levels of immigration and emigration been rising? | Due to the expansion of the EU |
| The current birth rate in the UK is 1.84 which means? | that the population will not be able to replace itself. so the UK population would be declining if it wasn't for the net migration |