Population

BY
ZURAIFAH
BTE
HAJI MOHD TAHIR
POPULATION
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 POPULATION
TERMS
Birth rate
 The number of babies born per thousand
people in the population per year

DEATH RATE
 The number of people who die per
thousand people in the population per
year
Dependency ratio
 Theratio of the number of dependants to
the number of working population in
the country

INFANT MORTALITY RATE

 Thenumber of infants under one year old
who die per thousand live births per year
Life expectancy
 Thenumber of years that a person is
expected to live at birth

NATURAL INCREASE
 The difference between the number of
births and the number of deaths
Net migration
 The number of people counting into a country
less the number leaving it.
 It refers to the difference between
immigration (the number of people coming
into a country) and emigration (the number
of people leaving the country)

POPULATION GROWTH
 The result of natural increase and net
migration
sex ratio
 Thenumber of male for ever 1000
females in the population

ZERO POPULATION GROWTH

 When the crude birth rate equals the
crude death rate and there is no natural
population change
overpopulation
A situation in which there are too many
people for the resources of a country to
support

UNDERPOPULATION
A situation in which there are too few
people to fully exploit the resources of a
country
Optimum population
 It exists when the population size enables
the maximum exploitation of resources
resulting in high living standards under
certain economic and technological
conditions
Population density
 Itrefers to the number of people per unit
area. This is calculated by dividing the
total population of the country by total
land area, or
 The number of people living in a unit area

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION
 The spread of people over an area
Demographic transition
 It refers to the stage of population growth
that a country passes through as it
develops

POPULATION PYRAMID
 It is a diagram showing the age, gender
and percentage of total population in
each group