population transfer

(noun)

The movement of a large group of people from one region to another by state policy or international authority, most frequently on the basis of ethnicity or religion.

Related Terms

Examples of population transfer in the following topics:

  • Population Transfer

    • Population transfer is the movement of a large group of people from one region to another by state policy or international authority.
    • Population exchange is the transfer of two populations in opposite directions at about the same time.
    • The view of international law on population transfer underwent considerable evolution during the 20th century.
    • There is now little debate about the general legal status of involuntary population transfers, as forced population transfers are now considered violations of international law.
    • The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.

  • Suburbanization

    • The population within St.
    • Sudden and extreme relocation out of urban areas into the suburbs is one of the many causes of urban sprawl, as suburbs grow to accommodate the increasingly large population.
    • In effect, the government was encouraging the transfer of the middle-class population out of the inner city and into the suburbs.
    • Companies are increasingly looking to build industrial parks in less populated areas, largely to match the desires of employees to work in more spacious areas closer to their suburban homes.

  • Hunger, Malnutrition, and Family

    • Thomas Malthus, in the six editions of his book, An Essay on the Principle of Population, published from 1798 to 1826, argued that the explosive population growth happening in his time could not continue indefinitely.
    • He claimed population growth would eventually be checked by famine and disease, because the earth's ability to produce food would not be able to keep up with the size of the population.
    • These advocates argue that free trade policies transfer economic decision-making power into the hands of multilateral organizations, such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and transnational corporations, so that local people are unable to determine what is done with food that is locally produced.
    • Seniors are another at-risk population for hunger.
    • This map shows the percentage of a country's population that is undernourished.

  • The Dynamics of Poverty

    • Poverty operates in a dynamic cycle, with the effects of poverty increasing the likelihood that it will be transferred between generations.
    • Slum-dwellers, who make up a third of the world's urban population, live in poverty no better, if not worse, than rural people, who are the traditional victims of poverty in the developing world.

  • Distribution of Wealth and Income

    • The Gini coefficient measures the amount of wealth or income inequality in a society by plotting the proportion of total income (or wealth) earned by the bottom x percent of the population.
    • The bottom half of the world adult population owned 1 percent of global wealth.
    • Moreover, another study found that the richest 2 percent of the population owned more than half of global assets as of the year 2000.
    • Communism, an economic system that (in its ideal form) consists of state ownership of assets and industry and the equal distribution of resources among the population, can be seen as an attempt to eradicate wealth inequality through government policy.
    • In addition to government efforts to redistribute wealth, the tradition of individual and organizational charity is a voluntary means of wealth transference.

  • The Future of Population and Urbanization

  • The Health of Infants and Children

    • Spreading information about the link between breastfeeding and HIV contraction is one way to reduce the transfer of HIV infections between generations.
    • Spreading information about the link between breastfeeding and HIV contraction is one way to reduce the transfer of HIV infections between generations.
    • Even with the great advances in childhood health that have occurred in recent decades, many health problems still afflict infant and child populations.

  • Global Aging Trends

    • Globally, most countries are seeing the average life expectancy of their populations increase.
    • The varied life expectancies and younger populations are illustrated in the map below, which depicts the percentage of each country's population that is over 65.
    • It is pretty clear from the map that more developed countries have much older populations and a greater percentage of their population is aged 65+.
    • More developed countries have older populations as their citizens live longer.
    • Less developed countries have much younger populations.

  • Introduction

    • Demography is the study of human population dynamics.
    • It encompasses the study of the size, structure and distribution of populations, and how populations change over time due to births, deaths, migration, and aging.

  • Population Trends

    • Despite an overall pattern of growth, population trends are not even across countries.
    • About half the world population lives in nations with sub-replacement fertility.
    • Presently, the world's population grows by approximately 80 million annually.
    • Once the population exceeded the planet's carrying capacity, the population would be restrained through mass famine and starvation.
    • The majority of world population growth today is occurring in less developed countries.