Vocab for population section as given in the de Blij textbook.
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| A measure of the number of people per given unit of land. | ||
| The population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit of area. The figure is derived by dividing the population of the areal unit by the number of square kilometers or miles that make up the area. | ||
| The number of people per unit 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 the ever-shorter doubling times and accelerating rates of increase. | ||
| Population growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths. This 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 a 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, sex 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 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. | ||
| 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 indication how long, on average, a person may be expected to live. Normally expressed in the context of a particular state. | ||
| Immune system disease caused by the Human Immunodefieciency 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 a person's demise. | ||
| Generally long-lasting afflictions now more common because of higher life expectancies. | ||
| Govenrment 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. |
