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Migration and its Effects on Population Growth and Composition

Migration

Peter McDonald

Migration is one of the three demographic processes that contribute to changes in the size of a population, the other two being fertility and mortality. Fertility is the process by which births are added to a population and mortality is the process by which the population is reduced by deaths.

Unlike fertility and mortality, migration has the additional complexity that it affects two populations at the same time: the place of origin and the place of destination.

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