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Aging index |
The number of people aged 65 year old and older per 100 children aged zero to 14 years in a given population |
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AIDS |
a serious disease if the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexually 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 country's population |
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Child mortality rate |
The recording of the deaths of children between the ages of 1 through 5 per thousand |
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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 |
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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 in the population |
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Demographic transition |
The shift In population growth it is based on 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's develops economically |
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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 |
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Doubling time |
The amount of time that it takes a population to multiple by 2 |
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Endemic |
A disease that spread 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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Expansion population policy |
A policy held by the former Soviet union and other communist societies in which large family's 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 country's population. This is the number of babies who die during the first year of life per 1000 live births |
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Infectious disease |
About 65 percent of all disease fall under this category. They result from an invasion of parasites that multiple within the body. An example is malaria |
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Life expectancy |
The average number of years that someone may expect to stay alive |
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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 |
