8283620292 | Demography | the study of human populations and population trends | 0 | |
8283620293 | Demographers | scientists in the field of demography | 1 | |
8283620294 | Immigration | the movement of people into a country or region, having come from another country or region | 2 | |
8283620295 | Emigration | the movement of people out of a country or region, to settle in another country or region | 3 | |
8283620296 | Crude Birth Rate | the number of births per 1000 individuals per year | 4 | |
8283620297 | Crude Death Rate | the number of deaths per 1000 individuals per year | 5 | |
8283620298 | Total Fertility Rate (TFR) | an estimate of the average number of children that each woman in a population will bear throughout her childbearing years | 6 | |
8283620299 | Replacement-Level Fertility | the total fertility rate required to offset the average number of deaths in a population in order to maintain the current population size | 7 | |
8283620300 | Developed Countries | countries with relatively high levels of industrialization and income | 8 | |
8283620301 | Developing Countries | countries with relatively low levels of industrialization and income | 9 | |
8283620302 | Life Expectancy | the average number of years that an infant born in a particular year in a particular country can be expected to live, given the current average life span and death rate in that country | 10 | |
8283620303 | Infant Mortality Rate | the number of deaths of children under 1 year of age per 1000 live births | 11 | |
8283620304 | Child Mortality Rate | the number of deaths of children under age 5 per 1000 live births | 12 | |
8283620305 | Age Structure Diagrams | diagrams that show the numbers of individuals within each age category, typically expressed for males and females separately | 13 | |
8283620306 | Population Pyramid | an age structure diagram that is widest at the bottom and smallest at the top, typical of developing countries | 14 | |
8283620307 | Population Momentum | continued population growth that does not slow in response to growth reduction measures | 15 | |
8283620308 | Demographic Transition | the theory that as a country moves from a subsistence economy to industrialization and increased affluence it undergoes a predictable shift in population growth | 16 | |
8283620309 | Family Planning | the practice of regulating the number or spacing of offspring through the use of birth control | 17 | |
8283620310 | Affluence | the state of having plentiful wealth; the possession of money, goods, or property | 18 | |
8283620311 | IPAT Equation | Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology | 19 | |
8283620312 | Urban Area | an area that contains more than 385 people per square kilometer (1000 people per square mile) | 20 | |
8283620313 | Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | a measure of the value of all products and services produced in a country in a year | 21 | |
8283620314 | doubling time | the number of years it takes for a population to double | 22 | |
8283620315 | rule of 70 | doubling time in years=70/ growth rate in % | 23 | |
8283620316 | net migration rate | the difference between immigration and emigration in a giver year per 1000 people | 24 | |
8283620317 | phase 1: pre modern | a phase when slow population growth, population is at a nearly steady state, before a country has modernized, CBR=CDR | 25 | |
8283620318 | phase 2: early expanding | a phase when there is rapid population growth, as a country modernizes, population momentum, CBR is greater than CDR | 26 | |
8283620319 | phase 3: late expanding | a phase when the population begins to stabilize, increasing urbanization, almost developed | 27 | |
8283620320 | phase 4: post-industrial | the phase when there is stable population growth, a larger amount of the population is elderly, developed countries, CDR higher than CBR | 28 | |
8283620321 | phase 5: declining | CBR29 | |
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