Demographic change

• What is demographic change caused by?


  Shifting flows
• What are demographic characteristics to do with?


  Who lives in a place and what they are like

  • include factors like age, ethnicity, population size
• How can the demographic characteristics of places change?


  Due to the effects of changing external flows
• Effects of changing external flows: flows of people?

  Flows of people can change any demographic characteristics of a place eg the age or gender balance

  • eg young people leaving Uckfield in Sussex because they are unable to afford a house- this leaves an increasingly high proportion of older people
• Effects of changing external flows: flows of money and investment, either by governments or businesses?

  This can change the demographic characteristics of places
• Effects of changing external flows: flows of money and investment, either by governments or businesses?


  eg governments can invest money in specific places to attract people to live there eg LDDC 1981
• Effects of changing external flows: flows of ideas and resources?


  Ideas such as the use of birth control can flow to new places and affect their demographic characteristics eg by reducing the birth rate and affecting the population size

  eg many poor countries in world have low use of birth control and rapid population growth