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Physiological density |
A measure of population density that is found by dividing the total number of people by the area of arable land |
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Population composition |
Aspects that make up a population. These can include sex, age, martial status and education |
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Population density |
A measure of total population relative to land size |
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Population distributions |
Descriptions of locations on the earths surface where individuals or groups live |
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Population explosion |
The rapid growth of the worlds human population during the past century attended by Ever shorter doubling times in accelerating rates of increase |
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Population pyramid |
This is a visual representation of the composition of a population in terms of age and sex |
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Rate of natural increase |
The difference between the number of births in number of deaths |
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Restrictive population policy |
A policy that is now generally enforced by the majority of the worlds of government. This policy ranges from toleration and promotion of birth control to prohibition of large families |
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Stage five |
This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by declining population. Birth rates continue to fall and drop below that death rate. Death rates remain steadily low |
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Stage four |
This is the stage of the demographic transition characterized by a decrease in population growth. The birth rates continue to fall while the death rate remains steadily well |
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Stage one |
This is the stage of the demographic transition characterized by low population growth there a high birthrates and death rates in this stage |
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Stage three |
This is the stage of the demographic transition characterized by a population explosion. Birth rates remain high although they begin to fall. Death rates are very low |
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Stage two |
This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by increased population growth. There are high birthrates in declining death rates |
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Stationary population level |
A term abbreviated SPL that refers to a theory that the global population will stop growing sometime during the 21st century and reach the stage |
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Malthusian theory |
Thomas Malthus believed that the worlds population was increasing faster than the food supply needed to sustain it. He thought food supplies grew linearly and the population grew exponentially |
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Total fertility rate |
Average number of children born to a woman during her lifetime. A TFR of 2.1 or higher indicates a stable population |
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Zero population growth |
A state in which a population is maintained at a constant level because the number of deaths is exactly offset by the number of births |
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Enrich theory |
Stanford university professor Paul predicted worldwide famine in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation as well as other major social upheaval and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. Fears of a population explosion were widespread in the 1950s and 1960s but the book and its author brought the idea to an even wider audience |
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Epidemiological transition model |
Process by which the pattern of mortality and disease is transformed from one home mortality among infants and children and episode famine and epidemic affecting all Adriance to wanna degenerative and man-made diseases affected Prince a bowl the elderly. It is generally believe that the epidemiological transitions prior to the 20th century |
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Boserups theory |
Also known as agricultural intensification, states that population change drives the intensity of agricultural production. Her position countered the Malthusian theory that agricultural methods determine population via limits on food supply |
