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Birth rate |
The number of live births per thousand people per year |
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Death rate |
The number of deads per thousand people per year |
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Natural increase |
The difference between the number of births and the number of deaths recorded over a period. |
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Net migration |
the amount by which the number of immigrants (people arriving to live in a country) is greater than the number of emigrants ( people leaving) |
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Immigration |
The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country |
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Emigration |
The act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad |
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In-migration |
to move into or come to live in a region or community especially as part of a large-scale and continuing movement of population |
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Out-migration |
The process of people permanently leaving a place in order to live in another place |
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Fertility rate |
the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area expressed per 1000 population per year |
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Replacement level fertility |
A level of reproduction in which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next. |
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Infant mortality rate |
The ratio of the number of deaths in the first year of life to the number of live births occurring in the same population during the same period of time. |
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life expectency |
the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation. |
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population density |
the number of people living per unit of an area (e.g. per square mile); the number of people relative to the space occupied by them |
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population distribution |
the arrangement or spread of people living in a given area; also, how the population of an area is arranged according to variables such as age, race, or sex |
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census |
an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc. |
