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4957790375Demographythe study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations.0
4957790376Arithmetic densitythe total number of people divided by the total land area.1
4957792145Crude birth ratethe number of live births occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year, per 1,000 mid-year total population of the given geographical area during the same year.2
4957792146Doubling timeperiod of time required for a quantity to double in size or value.3
4957793737Life expectancythe average period that a person may expect to live.4
4957796511Industrial RebolutionThe rapid development of industry that occurred in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries, brought about by the introduction of machinery.5
4957798029Zero population Growththe maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to only what is needed to replace the existing population.6
4957798030Sex ratioratio of males to females in a population7
4957802232Neo- Malthusiansgenerally refers to people with the same basic concerns as Malthus, who advocate population control programs, to ensure resources for current and future populations.8
4957803344Overpopulationnumber of individuals compared to the resources they need to survive, like water and essential nutrients.9
4957805093Physiological densitythe number of people per unit area of arable land.10
4957805094Crude death ratethe number of deaths occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year, per 1,000 mid-year total population of the given geographical area during the same year.11
4957806707Total fertility rateThe number of children who would be born per woman (or per 1,000 women) if she/they were to pass through the childbearing years bearing children according to a current schedule of age-specific fertility rates.12
4957813857Demographic transition modelthe transition from high birth and death rates to lower birth and death rates as a country or region develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.13
5070654227Medical revolutionMedical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa.14
5070694604Population pyramiddiaphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a population (typically that of a country or region of the world), which forms the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing.15
5070694605Censusan official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals.16
5070695560Epidemiologythe branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.17
5070695561Ecumeneland where people have made their permanent home, and to all work areas that are considered occupied and used for agricultural or any other economic purpose.18
5070697147Agricultural densityThe population density measured as the number of farmers per unit area of arable land19
5070698122Natural increase ratethe crude birth rate minus the crude death rate. When looking at countries, it gives an idea of what position in the Demographic Transition Model,20
5070704547Infant mortality ratenumber of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births.21
5070706095Agricultural revolutionperiod of technological improvement and increased crop productivity that occurred during the 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe.22
5070706096Cultural revolutionThe spread and acceptance of difference cultures23
5070708291Dependency ratiomeasure showing the number of dependents, aged zero to 14 and over the age of 65, to the total population, aged 15 to 64. It is also referred to as the "total dependency ratio."24
5070709801Malthusian Theorythe principle that human populations grow exponentially (i.e., doubling with each cycle) while food production grows at an arithmetic rate25
5070745090Epidiologic transitionprocess by which the pattern of mortality and disease is transformed from one of high mortality among infants and children and episodic famine and epidemic affecting all age groups to one of degenerative and man-made diseases (such as those attributed to smoking)26
5078123025Intervening opportunitiesattempts to describe the likelihood of migration. Its hypothesis is that this likelihood is influenced most by the opportunities to settle at the destination, less by distance or population pressure at the starting point.27
5078123026Center of populationgeographical point that describes a centerpoint of the region's population.28
5078126772Geographic centerLongitudinal and latitudinal coordinates of a place based on many characteristics29
5078139171ExurbanitiesOne who lives in a district outside a city, especially a prosperous area beyond the suburbs. will go to city for job like mom30
5213157186Demographic momentumtendency for a growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline because once this happens a country moves to a different stage in the demographic transition model.31
5213159928Contraception/family planningBirth control is the act of preventing pregnancy. Methods include medications, procedures, devices, and behaviors.32
5213159929Endemic(of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.33
5213165170Carrying capacitythe number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed or held by a vehicle or container.34
5213170075Arithmetic growthArithmetic growth refers to the situation where a population increases by a constant number of persons (or other objects) in each period being analysed.35
5213174015Pro-Natalist policiesis a belief that promotes human reproduction. The term is taken from the Latin adjective36
5213176369Epidemica widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.37
5213178464Patriarchalof, relating to, or characteristic of a system of society or government controlled by men.38
5213181689Exponential growthgrowth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size.39
5213184421Anti-Natalist policiesChina's population projections. An overview of China's One Child Policy. Successes. The total fertility rate has fallen from nearly 6 to about 1.7.40
5213186159Pandemicis an epidemic of infectious disease that has spread through human populations across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even worldwide.41
5213188089Matriarchalform of social organization in which the mother or oldest female is the head of the family, and descent and relationship are reckoned through the female line; government or rule by a woman or women."42

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