DEMOGRAPHIC

TERMS

Prepared by: Diekembe P. Tindoc

Demography
• - from the Greek word “demos”
means “human” and “graphy”
means “ write about or record
something
• It is a scientific stidy human
population with their size,
composition, and how they change
through births, deaths, and thr
movement of people from one
place to another
Demographic terminologies
• Birth rate – the number of live births per 1,000
population in a given year.
• Baby boom – a dramatic increase in fertility
rate in the absolute number of births
Migration
• Migration – the movement of people across a specific
boundary for the purpose of stablishing a new or
semi permanent residence.
• Internal migration – Change of residency within the
country ( province to province, city to city)
• International migration – change of residency over
the national boundary
Types of International migrants
• Legal migration – Gone through legal process; Those who
moved with legal permission from the receiving country
• Illegal – those who moved without legal permission frkm the
receiving country
• Refugee – those who crossed international boundary to
escape persecution; to escape from war
Mortality nad life expectancy
• Mortality rate or death rate – is a measur of the number of
deaths in a particular population Calculated as the number
of deaths per 1,000 people
• Life expectancy – the average number of additional years a
person could expect to live
• Life span – the maximum age that human beings could
reach under optimum conditions
• Old population – a population with relatively high proportion
of middle-age and elderly persons.
• Census – a survey of an entire population in a specific area
• Sex ratio – number of males per 100 females in a population

PUSH – PULL HYPOTHESIS

A theory suggests that circumstances at the place of origin

repel or push people out of that place to other places that
exerts postive attraction
A population
pyramid, also called an
age structure diagram
or an age-sex pyramid,
is a graphical
illustration - typically
in the shape a pyramid -
which depicts the
distribution of various
age groups for each
gender in a
Push-pull hypothesis
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