1 | Birth rate | | _____ | technically defined as two successive periods of economic decline; a situation in which the economy has experienced a downturn twice in a row, rather than the up-and-down movement of the usual economic cycle. |
2 | Commuter belt | | _____ | movement of people between places, generally between towns or cities and countries. |
3 | Demography | | _____ | the money paid by the government to people over retirement age. |
4 | Economic cycle | | _____ | movement into one country from another country. |
5 | Economic growth | | _____ | statistics that tell us something about the economy, eg interest rates or unemployment rates. |
6 | Economic indicators | | _____ | the total value of goods and services made in a country in a particular year. |
7 | Emigration | | _____ | the regular up-and-down movement of the economy. |
8 | Gross domestic product (GDP) | | _____ | the growth of cities as people move to them. |
9 | Immigration | | _____ | the point at which a person can stop work and claim a pension from the government (if at State Pension age) or their employer. |
10 | Indigenous population | | _____ | the numbers of children born in a year, compared to the population total. |
11 | Internal migration | | _____ | movement out of one country to another country. |
12 | Life expectancy | | _____ | movement between cities or towns within a country. |
13 | Migration | | _____ | those people who are born in a country, also known as its ‘native population’. |
14 | Niche market | | _____ | the study of the structure of a human population. |
15 | Recession | | _____ | a compulsory savings programme in countries such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada. |
16 | Retirement | | _____ | a small section of the total market that focuses on a very specific section of the population, eg a holiday company that caters only to those over the age of 65. |
17 | State Pension | | _____ | an area just outside a city, in which people live and from which they travel into the city to work each day. |
18 | Superannuation | | _____ | how many years the average person is expected to live. |
19 | Urbanisation | | _____ | a situation in which the economy is expanding, as measured by increasing national income, low interest rates and low unemployment. |