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| 20639392 | AIDS | immune system disease caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) | |
| 20639393 | arithmetic population density | the population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area | |
| 20639394 | census | a periodic and official count of a country's population | |
| 20639395 | child mortality rate | a figure that describes the number of children who die between the first and fifth years of their lives in a given population | |
| 20639396 | chronic diseases | generally long-lasting afflictions; degenerative diseases | |
| 20639397 | crude birth rate | the number of deaths yearly per thousand people in a given population | |
| 20639398 | crude death rate | the number of live births yearly per thousand people in a given population | |
| 20639399 | demographic transition | multistage model, based on Western Europe's experience, of changes in population growth exhibited by countries during industrialization | |
| 20639400 | dot map | maps where one dot represents a certain number of a phenomenon, such as a population | |
| 20639401 | doubling time | the time required for a population to double in size | |
| 20639402 | eugenic population policy | government policy designed to favor one racial sector over others | |
| 20639403 | expansive population policy | government policy that encourages large families and raises the rate of population growth | |
| 20639404 | infant mortality rate | a figure that describes the number of babies who die within the first year of their lives in a given population | |
| 20639405 | life expectancy | a figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live | |
| 20639406 | megalopolis | term used to describe large coalescing supercities that are forming in various parts of the world | |
| 20639407 | natural increase | population growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths | |
| 20639408 | physiological population density | the number of people per unit area of arable land | |
| 20639409 | population composition | structure of a population in terms of age, sex, and other properties such as marital status and education | |
| 20639410 | population density | a measure of the number of people per given unit of land | |
| 20639411 | population distribution | descriptions of locations on the Earth's surface where populations live | |
| 20639412 | population explosion | The rapid growth of the world's human population during the past century. | |
| 20639413 | population pyramids | visual representations of the age and sex composition of a population whereby the population of each age group is represented by a horizontal bar | |
| 20639414 | restrictive population policy | government policy designed to reduce the rate of natural increase | |
| 20639415 | stationary population level | the level at which a national population ceases to grow |
