population shift
People relocating en masse
A population shift is a significant change in where people live, typically involving large-scale migration from one region to another.
The term often describes movement from rural to urban areas, from one country to another, or demographic changes within a society: The postwar population shift to the suburbs transformed American cities.
Population shifts reshape economies, politics, and culture.
- climate migrationRelocating due to environmental shifts
- ghost townDeserted former inhabited place
- international migrationMovement across national borders
- chain migrationRelatives sponsoring immigrant kin
- urbanizationPopulation shift toward cities
diaspora · suburban sprawl · gentrification · internal migration · resettlement · cultural assimilation · melting pot · brain drain · emigration · white flight · rust belt · racial integration · translocation · refugee crisis · birth rate · mass exodus · census · immigration
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- shifts
- urban demographicsurban migration, city growth, headcount, urban core, metro area
- urbanizationcity, urban growth, metropolis, urban sprawl, suburbanization
- movementwalk, move, go, run, jump
- evolutionevolution, natural selection, mutation, adaptation, speciation
population, shift, populate, populated, populating, populates, depopulate, depopulated, depopulation