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Demography |
Study of population characteristics |
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Ecumene |
Portion of earth's surface occupied by human settlement |
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Overpopulation |
The number of people in relation with the amount of resources |
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Crude birth rate (CBR) |
Total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people |
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Crude death rate (CBD) |
The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people |
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Natural increase rate (NIR) |
The percentage growth of a population in a year |
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Total fertility rate (TRF) |
The average number of children a woman will have |
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Infant mortality rate (IMR) |
The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year |
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Life expectancy |
The average number of years an individual can be expected to live |
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Agricultural density |
The number of farmers to the amount of land for agriculture |
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Agricultural revolution |
The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals |
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Arithmetic density |
The number of people divided by the total land area |
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Census |
A complete enumeration of a population |
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Demographic transition |
The process of change in societies population |
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Dependency ratio |
The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64 |
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Epidemiologic transition |
Distinctive causes of death in each stage of demographic transition |
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Epidemiology |
Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence |
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Industrial revolution |
A series of improvements in industrial technology |
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Medical revolution |
Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that us diffused to the poorest countries |
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Pandemic |
Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area |
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Physiological density |
The number of people per unit area of arable land |
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Population pyramid |
A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex |
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Sex ratio |
The number of males per 100 females in the population |
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Zero population growth (ZPG) |
A decline of total fertility rate to the point where natural increase equals zero |
