GCSE 1. Population
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| Population structure | How the population is composed of different age groups and genders
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| Elderly dependents | People over 65 (Pensioners)
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| Child dependents | People under the age of 16 who are at school and therefore dependent (14 in many LEDCs)
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| Infant mortality | Death of children under the age of 1 per 1000 live births
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| Life expectancy | The average lengthy of life, measured by the health standards in year of birth
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| Economically active | People of working age (16-65 in UK). These provide the taxes to support the dependent
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| Death rate | The number of people dying per 1000 population
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| Birth rate | The number of babies born per 1000 population
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| Fertility rate | The average number of babies born to a woman
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| Population Pyramid | A graph which measures age groups and gender
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| Dependency ratio | The number of dependents for each economically active person
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| Family Planning | A government scheme to help families consider the number of children they will have, to use birth control
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| Contraception | Methods to prevent preganancy such as condoms and the pill
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| Overpopulation | When the number of people exceeds the resources
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| Demographic transition model | This graph shows how birth rates and death rates change as a country develops
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| Baby boom | When a larger number of children are born - often following a war
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| Urbanisation | A growing percentage of the population living in towns and cities (different to urban growth)
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| Rural to urban migration | Movement from the countryside to cities
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| Migration | The permanent movement from one place to another, internal or external from a country
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| Origin | The source of the people moving (migrants)
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| Destination | Where migrants wish to live
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| Asylum Seekers | People seeking safety in another country, fearing death or discrimination if they return
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| Refugees | People escaping into another country, from war or natural disasters
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| Immigration | People moving into a country
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| Emigration | People moving out of a country
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| Push factors | The reasons at the origin that cause people to leave
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| Pull factors | Thje reasons which attract migrants to their destination
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| Economic migrant | A person whose reasons for moving are based on money and improving their standard of living (eg Polish workers in the UK)
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| Shanty towns | Low cost, self built housing in many LEDC cities which cannot cope with the number of migrants from the countryside (eg Dharavi in Mumbai and 'kampungs' in Indonesia)
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| Self Help Schemes | A scheme where materials are provided by city council but migrants complete improvements to the shanty towns themselves
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| Counterurbanistion | When people leave the big cities to move to more rural areas on the outskirts or less densely populated regions (eg London to South West)
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| Megacity | Cities over 10 million people, aminly found in LEDCs as a result of rural urban migration
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| Replacement rate | 2.1 - the fertility rate needed for enough children to be born to balance out the dying
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| Natural increase | The difference between birth and death rate
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| Greying population | An increase in the number of elderly dependents due to increasing life expectancy
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