Monday, September 22, 2014

Notes from 9/22/14

Why do people migrate?
People migrate due to pull and push forces.

Push Forces- cause you to want to leave the place you live in.
-civil war
-environmental degradation
-unemployment/underemployment
-religious /ethnic persecution

Pull Forces- Something causing you to want to go somewhere else
-better economic opportunity
-better health services
-religious freedom
-political freedom

Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
TFR: Average number of children born per woman. For a population to remain the same, the TFR must be 2.1.
Higher than 2.1- population rises
Lower than 2.1- population falls

World TFR- 2.47
U.S.- 2.06
Nigeria- 5.38
Japan- 1.39

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