10/18/19 blog

Today in class we discussed birth rate, death rate and rate of natural increase. A birth rate is number of births per every 1000 people. The death rate is how many people die per every 1000 people.  The rate of natural increase is when you subtract the death rate minus the birth rate. We learned that in well developed countries most of the time their rate of natural increase is very low compared to third world countries such as countries in Africa as they have among the highest rate of natural selection in the world. We learned that an immigrant is persons that entering the country where as an emigrant is of persons that exit the country. Net migration rate is the difference between persons entering the country minus the number of persons exiting the countries