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aging index |
The number of people age 65 and older per hundred children ages 0 to 14 years in a given population |
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AIDS |
serious often fatal disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles |
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arithmetic density |
A measure of total population relative to land size this is also called population density |
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census |
A periodic and official count of a countries population |
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child Mortality rate |
The recording of the deaths of children between the ages of one through five per thousand |
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chronic disease |
also known as degenerative disease this is a malady of longevity and old age example is heart disease |
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crude birth rate |
The number of live births per year per thousand people in the population |
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crude death rate |
The number of deaths per year per thousand people |
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demographic transition |
The city in population growth it is based on historical population trends of two demographic characteristics birthrate and death rate is it just a country‘s total population growth rate cycles through stages as that country developed economically |
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dot map |
A common type of map used to display population when Mark is equal to a certain amount of people in an area |
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doubling time |
The amount of time that it takes a population to multiplied by two |
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endemic |
A disease that spreads over a small area |
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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 |
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expensive 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 |
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genetic disease |
also known as inherited disease this is an illness that can be traced back through ancestry such as sickle cell anemia or hemophilia |
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Infant mortality rate |
One of the leading measures of the condition of a countries population this is the number of babies who died during the first year of life per 1000 live births |
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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 and example is malaria |
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Life expectancy |
The average number of years that someone may expect to stay life |
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megalopolis |
A huge urban area that has extremely large populations |
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one-child policy |
A program established by the Chinese government in 1979 to slow population growth in China |