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== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> == * '''Demography''' β The scientific study of human populations, including their size, structure, and distribution. * '''Migration''' β The movement of people from one place to another with the intention of settling permanently or temporarily. * '''Push Factors''' β Reasons why people "Leave" a place (e.g., War, Poverty, Natural disasters). * '''Pull Factors''' β Reasons why people are "Attracted" to a new place (e.g., Jobs, Safety, Freedom). * '''Refugee''' β A person who has been forced to leave their country to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. * '''Brain Drain''' β When the most educated and skilled people leave a poor country to work in a rich one. * '''Remittances''' β Money sent by migrants back to their families in their home country (often a major part of a country's economy). * '''Carrying Capacity''' β The maximum population size of a species that the environment can sustain indefinitely. * '''Demographic Transition Model (DTM)''' β A model that shows how a country's birth and death rates change as it becomes more developed. * '''Urbanization''' β The process by which an increasing percentage of a population lives in cities and towns. </div> <div style="background-color: #006400; color: #FFFFFF; padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
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