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Population STRUCTURE is affected by the rate of... natural increase, birth rate, death rate, life
expectancy
The sections of the pyramid represent the following groups: young dependents, economically
actives, elderly dependents
Life Expectancy ... is the average number of years a person is expected to live.
Why are population pyramids useful? They allow comparisons to be made between countries.
In which urban land use zone would you tend to find terraced housing? Inner City
In which urban land use zone would you tend to find a large, detached house? Outer Suburbs
What does population density mean? The amount of people in a given area
What does population distribution mean? How people are spread out over an area
The population potential of the country is its population with a biological and socio-occupational
structure.
Population changes in Poland have been the result of natural growth changes and permanent
external migrations. The sum of both the natural growth and external migration balance gives the
real population growth.
The national structure is a percentage share of particular nationalities within the total population of
a given country.
Nationality is defined as a declared individual feature of every person, which is expressed by his/her
emotional, cultural or genealogical relationship with a given nation.
Although generally villages have agricultural functions, some of them also have other, non-
agricultural functions, such as:
*religious functions
*spa functions
*recreational functions
*craft functions
*tourist functions.
*shopping centers.
*noise,