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| 263042972 | Baby Boom | population of individuals born between the years 1946-1964 | |
| 263042973 | Census | count of the number of people in a country, region, or city | |
| 263042974 | CBR | Crude Birthrate, ratio of the number of live births in a single year for every thousand people in the population | |
| 263042975 | CDR | Crude Death rate, the number of deaths in a single year for every thousand people in the population | |
| 263042976 | Demography | the study of the characteristics of human populations | |
| 263042977 | Doubling time | measure of how long it will take the population of an area to grow to twice its current size | |
| 263042978 | Cohort | a group of individuals who share a common temporal demographic experience | |
| 263042979 | Population density | a numerical measure of the relationship between the number of people and some other unit of interest expressed as a ratio | |
| 263042980 | Population Pyramid | bar graph with vertical line in the middle, measuring not only population but also a society in time | |
| 263042981 | Carrying Capacity | the maximum number of users that can be sustained, over the long term, by a given set of natural resources | |
| 263042982 | Infant Mortality Rate | annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age compared to the total number of live births for that same year | |
| 263042983 | "Overpopulation" | too much population | |
| 263042984 | Rate of Natural Increase | the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate of a population | |
| 263042985 | Immigration | a move to another location | |
| 263042986 | Emigration | a move from a particular location | |
| 263042987 | Assimilate | Absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) into a wider society or culture: "pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream | |
| 263042988 | Accommodate | Provide lodging or sufficient space for. | |
| 263042989 | Distance Decay | the rate at which a particular activity or process diminishes with increasion distance | |
| 263042990 | Chain | refers to the social process by which immigrants from a particular town follow others from that town to a particular city or neighborhood, whether in an immigrant receiving country or in a new, usually urban, location in the home country. | |
| 263042991 | Forced | movement by an individual against his or her will | |
| 263042992 | Intervening Opportunities | The existence of a closer, less expensive opportunity for obtaining a good or service, or for a migration destination. Such opportunities lessen the attractiveness of more distant places. | |
| 263042993 | Guest Workers | A person with temporary permission to work in another country, esp. in Germany. | |
| 263042994 | Refugees | A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. | |
| 263042995 | Thomas Malthus | an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834). | |
| 263042996 | Pro Natal | An attitude or policy that encourages childbearing. | |
| 263042997 | Demographic Momentum | the phenomenon of continued population increase despite reduced reproductive rates. | |
| 263042998 | Ecumene | is a term originally used in the Greco-Roman world to refer to the inhabited universe (or at least the known part of it). | |
| 263042999 | Total Fertility Rate | The ratio of total live births to total population in a specified community or area over a specified period of time. The birthrate is often expressed as the number of live births per 1,000 of the population per year | |
| 263043000 | Generation X | The generation following the post-World War II baby boom, especially people born in the United States and Canada from the early 1960s to the late 1970s. |
