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aging index |
the number of people aged 65 years and older per 100 children aged zero to 14 in a given population (justin huynh) |
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AIDS |
a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles (justin huynh) |
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arithmetic density |
a measure of total population relative to land size. this is also called population density (justin huynh) |
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census |
a periodic and official count of a country’s population (justin huynh) |
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child mortality rate |
the recording of the deaths of children between the ages of 1 through 5 per thousand (justin huynh) |
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chronic disease |
also known as degenerative disease. this is a malady of longevity and old age. an example is heart disease (justin huynh) |
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crude birth rate |
the number of live births per year per thousand people in the population (justin huynh) |
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crude death rate |
the number of deaths per year per thousand people (justin huynh) |
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demographic transition |
the shift in population growth, it is based in historical population trends of two demographic characteristics - birth rate and death rate - to suggest that a country’s total population growth rate cycles through stages as that country develops economically (justin huynh) |
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dot map |
a common type of map used to display population. one mark is equal to a certain amount of people in an area (justin huynh) |
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doubling time |
the amount of time that it takes a population to multiply by 2 (justin huynh) |
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endemic |
a disease that spreads over a small area (justin huynh) |
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eugenic population policy |
a policy that some governments have engaged in which is designed to favor one racial or cultural sector of the population over others (justin huynh) |
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expansive population policy |
a policy held by the former soviet union and other communist societies in which large families were encouraged in order to increase the RNI (justin huynh) |
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genetic diseass |
also known as inherited disease. this is an illness that can be traced back through ancestry such as sickle cell anemia or hemophilia (justin huynh) |
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infant mortality rate |
one of the leading measures of the condition of a country’s population. this is the number of babies who die during the first year of life per 1000 live births (justin huynh) |
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infectious disease |
about 65% of all diseases fall under this category. they result from an invasion of parasites that multiple within the body. an example is malaria (justin huynh) |
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life expectancy |
the average number of years that someone may expect to stay alive (justin huynh) |
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megalopolis |
a huge urban area that has extremely large populations (justin huynh) |
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one-child policy |
a program established by the chinese government in 1979 to slow population growth in China (justin huynh) |
