Population and Migration

High Stationary Stage: (where, birth/death rates, natural increase)

- Stage 1
- Remote groups
- High birth and death
- Slow/stable natural increase
- Reason (Birth Rate): Many children are needed for farming, infant mortality, and society/religion.
- Reason (Death Rate): Disease, famine, poor healthcare

Early Expanding Stage: (where, birth/death rates, natural increase)

- Stage 2
- Yemen, Afghanistan
- High birth, rapidly falling death
- Very rapid natural increase
- Reason (Birth Rate): Many children are needed for farming, infant mortality, and society/religion
- Reason (Death Rate): Improved healthcare, water supply & sanitation, fewer children die.

Late Expanding Stage: (where, birth/death rates, natural increase)

- Stage 3
- India, South Africa
- Falling birth, slower falling death
- Slow natural increase
- Reason (Birth Rate): Improved medicine and health, fewer children needed
- Reason (Death Rate): Improved healthcare, water supply & sanitation, fewer children die.

Low Stationary Stage: (where, birth/death rates, natural increase)

- Stage 4
- USA, France
- Low birth/death
- Stable/slow natural increase
- Reason (Birth Rate): Family planning, good health, improving status of women, later marriage
- Reason (Death Rate): Good healthcare, reliable food supply

Declining?

- Stage 5?
- Germany
- Very low birth, low death
- Slow decrease
- Reason (Birth Rate): Family planning, good health, improving status of women, later marriage
- Reason (Death Rate): Good healthcare, reliable food supply

Migrant

A person who moves from one place to another in search of work/better living conditions

Immigrant

Someone who moves into a country

Emigrant

moves out of a country

Internal Migration

moving from one place to another within the same country

International Migration

where a person moves from one country to another

Overpopulation

excessive population of an area that leads to overcrowding

Birth rate

No. of births per 1000 people

Death Rate

No. of births per 1000 people

Source Country

Country that migrants originally come from

Asylum Seeker

Person who leaves a country for fear of safety

Host Country

Country where the migrant has settled

Densely Populated

A large number of people who live within the same area (in square miles)

Sparsely Populated

A small number of people who live within the same area (in square miles)

Population Density

No. of people who live within a square mile

Sitting Factors

Factors like water supply, food supply and energy that influence how many people can live in an area