Population - Economics IGCSE

The act of leaving the country to live in another country

• Transmigration

• Emigration

• Mitigation

• Transmition

More people coming to live in the country than people leaving the country to live elsewhere

• Death rate

• Birth rate

• Infant mortality rate

• Net immigration

The difference between immigration and emigration

• Immigration

• Emigration

• Net Immigration

• Net Migration

The number of births in a year per 1000 population in a year

• Birth rate

• Date rate

• Infant mortality rate

• Dependency ratio

The number of deaths in a year per 1000 population in a year

• Birth rate

• Death rate

• Date rate

• Infant mortality rate

A diagram showing the age and gender structure of a country's population is called . . . .

• Pyramid

• Spinx

• Population Pyramid

• Need Pyramid

The size of population which maximizes the country's output per head

• Minimum Population

• Maximized Population

• Optimum Population

• Optimum Productivity

The proportion of the population that has to be supported by the labour force is

• Interdependence Ration

• Independent Ration

• Dependency Ration

• PED

A country in which people have healthy diets, enjoy good housing facilities and access to high quality medical care, do not smoke or consume excess alcohol, exercise regularly, enjoy good working conditions and the country is at peach with other countries, is likely to have a relatively . . . .

• fertility rate

• birth rate

• death rate

• infant mortality rate

It is often thought that countries with low development have large populations. This is not always the case. What they tend to have is . . . .

• a high population growth rate

• a low population growth rate

• Dependency ratio

• death rate