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ecumene |
the portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement |
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arithmetic density |
the total number of objects in an area |
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physiological density |
the number of people supported by a unit area of arable land |
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agricultural density |
the ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land |
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crude birth rate (CBR) |
the total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society |
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crude death rate (CDR) |
the total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society |
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natural increase rate (NIR) |
the percentage by which a population grows in a year |
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doubling time |
the number of years needed to double a population |
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total fertility rate (TFR) |
the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years (15-49) |
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demographic transition |
a process of change in a society's population |
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zero population growth (ZPG) |
CBR = CDR & NIR is 0 |
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pandemic |
disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population |
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infant mortality rate (IMR) |
the total number of deaths of infants under one year of age compared to total live births |
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census |
a complete enumeration of a population |
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demography |
the scientific study of population characteristics |
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dependency ratio |
the number of people under age 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force |
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epidemiologic transition |
distinctive causes of death in each stage of demographic transition |
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industrial revolution |
a series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods |
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population pyramid |
a bar graph that represents 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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The most populous country in the South East Asia region is.. |
Indonesia |
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The annual natural increase rate is currently approximately.. |
1.2% |
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The annual natural increase rate is currently approximately.. |
1.2% |
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it's the physiological density is much larger than the original arithmetic density, then the country has.. |
A small percentage of land suitable for agriculture |
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The annual natural increase rate is currently approximately.. |
1.2% |
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it's the physiological density is much larger than the original arithmetic density, then the country has.. |
A small percentage of land suitable for agriculture |
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A country with a large amount of arable land in a small number of farmers will have a.. |
low agricultural density |
