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Population and Settlement — lesson overview
Population measures
Population density relates population to land area, commonly as persons per square kilometre; it is not the same as total population.
Population change depends on births, deaths and migration. Natural increase concerns the balance of births and deaths, excluding migration.
A rate must be interpreted with its denominator, time period and geographical coverage.
Distribution and migration
Water, land, climate, employment, infrastructure and historical development influence population distribution through interacting effects.
Migration can occur within a country or across borders, and may involve economic, social, environmental or political motives.
Push and pull factors are useful analytical categories, but a household’s decision often combines several motives and constraints.
Settlement patterns
Rural and urban settlements differ in functions and legal or statistical classification, not merely in whether buildings are tall.
Compact, dispersed and linear settlement patterns reflect land use, transport routes, topography and social organisation.
Urbanisation can involve population growth, migration and reclassification; it is not synonymous with the physical expansion of one city.
