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Immigrate |
To move permanently to a country other than one's native country |
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Emmigrate |
To leave your country of origin to live permanently in another country |
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Demography |
Study of population numbers, distribution, trends, and issues |
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Birth rate |
Number of births per 1000 people Pop divided by birth/year x 1000 |
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Death Rate |
Number of deaths per 1000 people Pop divided by deaths/year x 1000 |
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Natural increase rate |
Difference between the birth rate and death rate of a country Birth rate - death rate = NIR |
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Immigration rate |
Number of new Canadians who have immigrated here from another country per 1000 people of Canada's population Immigration/year divided by pop x1000 = amount of immigrants/1000 people |
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Emigration rate |
Number of people per 1000 population in one year who emigrate Emigration/year divided by pop x 1000 = amount of emigrants /1000 people |
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Net migration rate |
Difference between people immigrating to a country and people emigrating from the same country Immigration-Emmigration = NMR |
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Population growth rate |
Measurement that combines both natural increase and net migration to calculate the overall growth of a country's population Births - deaths = PGR |
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Doubling time |
(demographics) how long it would take for a country's population to double at the country's current rate of population growth |
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Rule of 70 |
In demographics, process whereby you divide 70 by population growth rate to estimate how many years it will take for the country's population to double |
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Dependency Load |
Portion of the population that is not in the workforce; total people under 14 and over 65 |
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Population Pyramid |
Graph that depicts population distribution by age and sex |
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Doubling time using the rule of 70 |
70 divided by the percent increase |
