Swain's Final Exam Vocabulary
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| 5812413565 | age structure | Percentage of the population (or number of people of each sex) at each age level in a population. | 0 | |
| 5812413566 | birth rate | The number of live births per thousand of population per year. | 1 | |
| 5812413567 | crude birth rate | Annual number of live births per 1,000 people in the population of a geographic area at the midpoint of a given year. | 2 | |
| 5812413568 | crude death rate | Annual number of deaths per 1,000 people in the population of a geographic area at the midpoint of a given year. | 3 | |
| 5812413569 | cultural carrying capacity | The limit on population growth that would allow most people in an area or the world to live in reasonable comfort and freedom without impairing the ability of the planet to sustain future generations. | 4 | |
| 5812413570 | death rate | The ratio of deaths to the population of a particular area during a particular period of time, usually calculated as the number of deaths per one thousand people per year. | 5 | |
| 5812413571 | demographic transition | Hypothesis that countries, as they become industrialized, have declines in death rates followed by declines in birth rates. | 6 | |
| 5812413572 | emigration | Movement of people out of a specific geographic area. Compare immigration, migration. | 7 | |
| 5812413573 | family planning | Providing information, clinical services, and contraceptives to help people choose the number and spacing of children they want to have. | 8 | |
| 5812413574 | fertility rate | Number of children born to an average woman in a population during her lifetime. | 9 | |
| 5812413575 | immigration | Migration of people into a country or area to take up permanent residence. | 10 | |
| 5812413576 | infant mortality rate | Number of babies out of every 1,000 born each year who die before their first birthday. | 11 | |
| 5812413577 | life expectancy | Average number of years a newborn infant can be expected to live. | 12 | |
| 5812413578 | migration | Movement of people into and out of specific geographic areas. | 13 | |
| 5812413579 | population change | Increase or decrease in the size of a population. It is equal to (Births + Immigration) - (Deaths + Emigration). | 14 | |
| 5812413580 | replacement-level fertility | Average number of children a couple must bear to replace themselves. The average for a country or the world usually is slightly higher than two children per couple (2.1 in the United States and 2.5 in some developing countries) mostly because some children die before reaching their reproductive years. | 15 | |
| 5812413581 | total fertility rate (TFR) | Estimate of the average number of children who will be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she passes through all her childbearing years (ages 15-44) conforming to age-specific fertility rates of a given year. More simply, it is an estimate of the average number of children that women in a given population will have during their childbearing years. | 16 |
