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carrying capcity
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the numbers of any population that can be adequately supported by the available resources upon which that population subsists; for humans, the numbers supportable by the known and utilized resources--usually agricultural of an area
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cohort
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a population group unified by a specific common characteristic, such as age, and who are treated as a statistical unit during their lifetimes.
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crude birth rate (CBR)
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birth rate
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crude death rate (CDR)
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death rate
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physiological density
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the number of persons per unit area of agricultural land.
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population density
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a measurement of the numbers of persons per unit area of land within predetermined limits, usually politcical or cenus boundaries.
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population geography
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the ranch of human geography dealing with the number, composition, and distribution of humas in relation to varations in earth-space conditions.
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rate
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th frequency of occurrence of an event during a specified time period
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replacement level
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the number of chilren per family just sufficient to keep total population constant. Depending on mortality conditions, replacement level is usually calculated to be between 2.1 and 2.5 children
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total fertility rate
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the average number of children that would be born to each woman if, during her childbearing years, she bore children at the current year's rate for women for that age.
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zero population growth
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a situation in which a population is not changing in size from year to year, as a result of the combination of births, deaths, and migration.
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