Share 5th Grade: The population of Spain and Europe
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What do you call the special survey that governments use to count the residents in a country?
Census
What information can we find in a census?
Gender, age, civil status, level of studies, and jobs
What is an active population?
The people who can work.
What are the two groups in an active population?
People who have jobs (employed), and people who don’t have jobs (unemployed).
What do you call a population who can’t work?
An inactive population.
How often do countries do census?
Every 10 years.
Who carries out the census in Spain?
The Instituto Nacional de Estadística
What do you call the study on the changes in population?
Demography
When can we say that the population increases?
When babies are born or when new people arrive.
When can we say that the population decreases?
When people die or when they leave.
What term do we use for the number of babies born per thousand people?
Birth Rate
What is Death Rate?
The number of people that died per thousand people.
What do we call the difference between the number of births and the number of deaths?
Natural Growth
What is emigration?
Happens when people leave their country for another place.
What is immigration?
Happens when people come to a new country to live.
What do you call the number of years that a person will probably live?
Life Expectancy
