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| 15036860544 | Agricultural Revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering | 0 | |
| 15036860545 | Arithmetic Density | The total number of people divided by the total land area. | 1 | |
| 15036860546 | Census | A complete enumeration of a population. | 2 | |
| 15036860547 | Crude Birth Rate (CBR) | The total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society. | 3 | |
| 15036860548 | Crude Death Rate (CDR) | The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society. | 4 | |
| 15036860549 | Demographic Transition Model | A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time. | 5 | |
| 15036860550 | Demography | The scientific study of population characteristics. | 6 | |
| 15036860551 | Dependency Ratio | The number of people under age 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force | 7 | |
| 15036860552 | Doubling Time | The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase. | 8 | |
| 15036860553 | Ecumene | The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. | 9 | |
| 15036860554 | Epidemiologic Transition | distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transitions | 10 | |
| 15036860555 | Epidermiology | Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that affect large numbers of people. | 11 | |
| 15036860556 | Industrial Revolution | A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods. | 12 | |
| 15036860557 | Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) | The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births in a society. | 13 | |
| 15036860558 | Life Expectancy | The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live. | 14 | |
| 15036860559 | Malthusian Theory | The theory that population grows faster than food supply | 15 | |
| 15036860560 | Medical Revolution | Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled more people to live longer and healthier lives. | 16 | |
| 15036860561 | Natural Increase Rate (NIR) | The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate. | 17 | |
| 15036860562 | Neo-Malthusians | People who believed in Malthusian Theory and in the idea that population was not only outstripping food but other resources | 18 | |
| 15036860563 | Overpopulation | The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living. | 19 | |
| 15036860564 | Pandemic | Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population. | 20 | |
| 15036860565 | Physiological Density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. | 21 | |
| 15036860566 | Population Pyramid | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex. | 22 | |
| 15036860567 | Sex Ratio | The number of males per 100 females in the population. | 23 | |
| 15036860568 | Total Fertility Rate (TFR) | The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years. | 24 | |
| 15036860569 | Zero Population Growth (ZPG) | A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero. | 25 | |
| 15036860570 | Aging Population | an increasing median age in the population of a region due to declining fertility rates and/or rising life expectancy | 26 | |
| 15036860571 | Anti-Natalist Policies | a scheme or law that a government may adopt in order to control their population growth | 27 | |
| 15036860572 | Arithmetic Growth | the situation where a population increases by a constant number of persons (or other objects) in each period being analysed | 28 | |
| 15036860573 | Carrying Capacity | The largest number of people that the environment of a region can support. | 29 | |
| 15036860574 | Contraception | the deliberate use of artificial methods or other techniques to prevent pregnancy as a consequence of sexual intercourse | 30 | |
| 15036860575 | Demographic Accounting Equation | An equation that summarizes the amount of growth or decline in a population within a country during a particular time period taking into account both natural increase and net migration. | 31 | |
| 15036860576 | Demographic Momentum | the tendency for growing population to continue growing after a fertility decline because of their young age distribution | 32 | |
| 15036860577 | Endemic | (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area | 33 | |
| 15036860578 | Epidemic | a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. | 34 | |
| 15036860579 | Exponential Growth | Growth that occurs when a fixed percentage of people is added to a population each year. Exponential growth is compound because the fixed growth rate applies to an ever-increasing population. | 35 | |
| 15036860580 | Family Planning Services | educational, comprehensive medical or social activities which enable individuals, including minors, to determine freely the number and spacing of their children and to select the means by which this may be achieved | 36 | |
| 15036860581 | Matriarchal | relating to or denoting a form of social organization in which a woman is the head. | 37 | |
| 15036860582 | Mortality | death, especially on a large scale. | 38 | |
| 15036860583 | Patriarchal | relating to or denoting a form of social organization in which a man is the head | 39 | |
| 15036860584 | Pro-Natalist Policies | in public policy typically seeks to create financial and social incentives for populations to reproduce, such as proving tax incentives that reward having and supporting children | 40 | |
| 15036860585 | Cohort | A population group unified by a specific common characteristic, such as age, and subsequently treated as a statistical unit. | 41 | |
| 15036860586 | Baby Boomers | Cohort of individuals born in the USA between 1946 and 1964, just after World War II in a time of relative peace and prosperity. | 42 | |
| 15036860587 | Baby Bust | Period of time during the 1960s and 1970s when fertility rates in the USA dropped as large numbers of women from the baby boom generation sought higher levels of education and more competitive jobs, causing them to marry later in life. | 43 | |
| 15036860588 | Generation X | A term coined by artist and author Douglas Coupland to describe people born in the United States between the years 1965 and 1980. This post-baby-boom generation will have to support the baby boom cohort as they head into their retirement years. | 44 | |
| 15036860589 | Millennials | aka Generation Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X, and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s to around 2000s as ending birth years | 45 | |
| 15036860590 | Generation Z | the demographic cohort after the Millennials. Demographers and researchers typically use the mid-1990s to early-2000s as starting birth years. there is a little consensus regarding any birth years. Most of Generation Z have used the Internet since a young age and are comfortable with technology and social media | 46 | |
| 15036860591 | Thomas Malthus | created Malthusian Theory | 47 | |
| 15036860592 | E.G. Ravenstein | British demographer who sought an answer to "why people voluntarily migrate." He studied internal migration in England and proposed the laws of migration involving the use of Pull and Push factors. | 48 |
