Glossary
- Positive aspects of another place which draw you to migrate to it
Answer: Pull Factors
- A perspective which promotes birth and increased population
Answer: Pronatalist
- The number of young and elderly people in a population divided by the total adult population
Answer: Dependency Ratio
- An antinatalist who agrees with Malthus, but rejects his conservative and religious proscriptions
Answer: Neo Malthusian
- Theory that claims populations go through 3 distinct stages that correspond to the onset of the Industrial Revolution with regard to changes in birth and death rates
Answer: Demographic Transition
- The termination of the body, its systems, and brain activity in an irreversible way
Answer: Death
- The scientific study of diseases, their transmission, and their management
Answer: Epidemiology
- The number of deaths in a given population per 1,000 people living in that population
Answer: Crude death rate
- The departure from your country of origin to reside in another
Answer: Emigration
- Negative aspects of where you live which make you consider leaving
Answer: Push factors
- The arrival of a foreigner into a country they will reside in and likely become a citizen of on some future date
Answer: Immigration
- When a population neither shrinks nor expands from year to year
Answer: Zero population growth
- The time required for a population to double if the current growth rate continues
Answer: Doubling time
- The number of infant deaths per 1,000 live births
Answer: Infant Mortality Rate
- The graphic representation of specified 5-year age groups within a population and by being males or females
Answer: Population Pyramid
- A perspective which opposes childbearing
Answer: Antinatalist
