You gotta learn the following:-

 

Population Stucture – population pyramids for EMDCs and ELDCs

Population Change – DTM

Maigration – international, forced, voluntary, rural-urban (case study for each), push and pull factors

Benefits and problems created in both origin and destination, as a result of migration

Obstacles in migration

The meaning of key terms such as birth rate, death rate, Infant Mortality Rate, GDP/GNP

Reasons for changing birth and death rate in the DTM and in ELDCs and EMDCs

The effects of changing birth and death rates in EMDCS and ELDCs

The reasons for and consequences of rapid population growth in ELDCs

The reasond and consequences of a slow or negative growth in EMDCs

Methods of gathering population data

Difficulties in collecting population data

Increasing death rate due to AIDS in many ELDCs and the consequences

 

GLOSSARY

 

Population Pyramid – A Bar graph which illustrates population structure

Census – A count of the country’s population which may include a range of data such as age, sex, occupation

Demographic Transition Model – A combined line graph showing changing birth rate, death rate and population over a period of time

Demography – The study of population statistics

ELDC – An economically less developed country

EMDC – An economically more developed country

Interneational Migration – The movement of people from one counrty to another

Losing Country/Donor Country/Country of Origin – The country from which a migrant leaves

Projected Ageing – The way in which a population may be predicted to become older

Pull Factors – Conditions in the country of destination which encourages people to migrate there.

Push Factors – Conditions in the country of origin which makes the migrants want to leave

Receiving Country/Host Country/Country of Destination – The Country to which the migrants move

Rural Urban Migration – The movement of people from the countryside to towns and cities