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| A measurement of the number of people per given unit of land. | ||
| The population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area. The figure is derived by dividing the population of the area unit by the number of square kilometers or miles that make up the unit. | ||
| The number of people per unit area of arable land | ||
| Description of locations on the Earth's surface where populations live. | ||
| Maps where one dot represents a certain number of a phenomenon, such as a population. | ||
| Term used to designate large coalescing supercities that are forming in diverse parts of the world; formerly used specifically with an uppercase "M" to refer to the Boston-Washington multimetropolitan corridor on the northeastern seaboard of the United States, but now used generically with a lower-case "m" as a synonym for conurbation | ||
| A periodic and official count of a country's population. | ||
| The time required for a population to double in size. | ||
| The rapid growth of the world's human population during the past century, attended by ever-shorter doubling times and accelerating rates of increase. | ||
| Population growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths. Natural increase of a population does not reflect either emigrant or immigrant movements. | ||
| The number of live births yearly per thousand people in a population. | ||
| The number of deaths yearly per thousand people in a population. | ||
| 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. | ||
| The level at which a national population ceases to grow. | ||
| Structure of a population in terms of age, sec and other properties such as marital status and education. | ||
| Visual representations of the age and sex composition of a population whereby the percentage of each age group (generally five-year increments) is represented by a horizontal bar the length of which represents its relationship to the total population. The males in each age group are represented to the left of the center line of each horizontal bar; the females in each age group are represented to the right of the center line. | ||
| A figure that describes the number of babies that die within the first year of their lives in a given population. | ||
| The number of infants who die within the first month of life per 1,000 live births. | ||
| A figure that describes the number of children that die between the first and fifth years of their lives in a given population. | ||
| A figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live. Normally expressed in the context of a particular state. | ||
| Diseases that are spread by bacteria, viruses, or parasites. Infectious diseases diffuse directly or indirectly from human to human | ||
| Generally long-lasting afflictions now more common because of higher life expectancies. | ||
| Diseases caused by variation or mutation of a gene or group of genes in a human. | ||
| Immune system disease caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) which over a period of years weakens the capacity of the immune system to fight off infection so that weight loss and weakness set in and other afflictions such as cancer or pneumonia may hasten an infected person's demise. | ||
| Government policies that encourage large families and raise the rate of population growth. | ||
| Government policies designed to favor one racial sector over others. | ||
| Government policies designed to reduce the rate of natural increase. | ||
| A program established by the Chinese government in 1979 to slow population growth in China. |
