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15 Cards in this Set
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CBR (crude birth rate) |
The number of live births per year for each 1,000 people |
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TFR (total fertility rate) |
Focuses on women in their childbearing years of ages 15 and 49 |
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Life expectancy |
The average number of years people live |
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IMR (infant mortality rate) |
The number of children who die before their 1st birthday |
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CDR (crude birth rate) |
The ratio of the number of deaths yearly per 1,000 people in a given population |
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RNI (rate of natural increase) |
The percentage at which a country’s population is growing or declining without the impact of migration |
RNI=(CBR-CDR)/10% |
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Doubling Time |
Can be estimated using an equation known as the rule of 70 (some people use the rule of 72) |
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DTM (demographic transition model) |
Shows five typical stages of population change that countries experience as they modernize |
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Demographic Momentum |
As countries transition from early stage 3 into stage 4, population will continue to grow for at least one generation |
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Epidemiological Transition Model |
explains the changing death rates and more common causes of death within societies |
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Malthusian Theory |
Geographers and other social scientists have debated the usefulness of Malthus’s ideas about population growth |
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Neo-Malthusians |
Those who still accept Malthus’s fundamental premise as correct today |
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Boserup Theory |
Suggested that the more people there are, the more hands there are to work, rather than just more mouths to feed |
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Antinalalist Policies |
Attempt to decrease the number of births in a country and are often used by developing countries |
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Pronatalist Policies |
programs designed to increase the fertility rate |
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