A | B |
birth rate | the average number of children born in a year, for every thousand people in the population |
death rate | the average number of people who die in a year, out of every thousand people in the population |
densely population | a lot of people living in a small area |
international migration | when people move from one country to another |
migration | a person who moves from living in one place to live in another |
temporary migration | someone who moves to another place for work, but who does not plan to live there permanently |
density | the number of people living in a certain area, usually expressed as persons per square kilometre |
population distribution | the way people are spread out across an area |
natural increase | the rate that population increases by, when births and deaths have been taken into account |
push factors | something bad which makes people want to migrate from an area |
urbanisation | a movement of people from the countryside to towns and cities |
seasonal migrant | someone who migrates to an area for a set length of time for work, often farm work like fruit picking or helping with the harvest |
sparsely populated | an area with very few people living there |