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the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture |
agricultural density |
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policies that encourage couples to limit the number of children they have |
antinatalism |
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the total number of people divided by the total land area |
arithmetic density |
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the population level that can be supported, given the quantity of food, habitat, water, and other life infrastructure present |
carrying capacity |
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a complete enumeration of a population |
census |
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a figure that describes the number of children that die between the first and fifth years of their lives in a given population |
child mortality rate |
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the total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people in the population |
crude birth rate |
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the total number of deaths in a year for 1,000 people in the population |
crude death rate |
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the formula that calculates population change. The formula finds the increase (or decrease) in a population. The formula calculated is as follows: birth minus deaths plus (or minus) net migration. |
demographic equation |
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the tendency for population growth to continue despite rapid changes to fertility rates (such as due to strict family planning programs) because of a relatively high concentration of people in the childbearing years |
demographic momentum |
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multistage model, based on Western Europe's experience, of changes in population growth exhibited by countries undergoing industrialization. High birth rates and death rates are followed by plunging death rates, producing a huge net population gain; this is followed by the convergence of birth rates and death rates at a low overall level |
demographic transition |
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the scientific study of population characteristics |
demography |
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the number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force |
dependency ratio |
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the time required for a population to double in size |
doubling time |
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the portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement |
ecumene |
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distinctive causes of death associated with each stage of the demographic transition |
epidemiological transition |
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the total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births in a society |
infant mortality rate |
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the average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live |
life expectancy |
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one of the first to argue that the world's rate of population increase was far outrunning the development of food production |
Malthus, Thomas |
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the percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate. Natural increase of a population does not reflect either emigrant or immigrant movements. |
natural increase rate |
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the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living |
overpopulation |
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the number of people per unit area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture |
physiological density |
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a process involving the clustering or concentrating of people |
population agglomeration |
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a bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex |
population pyramid |
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policies that provide incentives for women to have children, typically in countries where population is declining |
pronatalism |
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the number of children each woman must have to keep the population stable without immigration |
replacement fertility |
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the number of males per 100 females in the population |
sex ratio |
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the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years |
total fertility rate |
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a decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero |
zero population growth |
