11927483179 | demography | Scientific study of human populations. | 0 | |
11927494876 | immigration | Movement of individuals into a population | 1 | |
11927501320 | emigration | Movement of individuals out of an area | 2 | |
11927510266 | Crude Birth Rate (CBR) | The number of live births per year per 1,000 people. | 3 | |
11927515489 | Crude Death Rate (CDR) | The number of deaths per year per 1,000 people. | 4 | |
11927525052 | Doubling Time | The number of years needed to double a population | 5 | |
11927539194 | Halving Time | the time it would take for the population to be decreased by half | 6 | |
11927583701 | Total Fertility Rate (TFR) | The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years. | 7 | |
11927594924 | Replacement-level fertility | The number of children that a woman/couple must have in order to replace the number of people in the population who die | 8 | |
11936397531 | Developed Country | a country with relatively high levels of industrialization and income | 9 | |
11936408229 | Developing Country | a country with relatively low levels of industrialization and income | 10 | |
11936416499 | Life Expectancy | The average number of years an individual can be expected to live | 11 | |
11936427417 | Infant Mortality | the number of deaths of children under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births | 12 | |
11936431809 | Child Mortality | the number of deaths of children under age 5 per 1,000 live births | 13 | |
11936442367 | Net Migration | the difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants | 14 | |
11936448960 | Age Structure Diagram | graph of the numbers of males and females within different age groups of a population | 15 | |
11936453871 | Population Momentum | continued population growth after growth reduction measures have been implemented | 16 | |
11936462584 | Theory of Demographic Transition | as a country moves from a subsistence economy to industrialization and increased affluence, it undergoes a predictable shift in population growth | 17 | |
11936467635 | Affluence | wealth | 18 | |
11936471133 | Family Planning | Providing information, clinical services, and contraceptives to help people choose the number and spacing of children they want to have. | 19 | |
11936479692 | IPAT equation | Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology | 20 | |
11936487241 | Gross Domestic Product | a measure of the value of all products and services produced in a country in a year | 21 | |
11936503521 | Thomas Malthus | 1798 said human population can outgrow food supply; result will be war, famine, disease. | 22 | |
11936513866 | Garrett Hardin | Wrote Tragedy of the Commons | 23 | |
11936517753 | Tragedy of the Commons | (1968 Essay by Garrett Hardin) the tendency of a shared, limited resource to become depleted because people act from self-interest for short-term gain | 24 | |
11936549049 | Malthusian Trap | Malthus's prediction that a rapidly increasing population will overuse natural resources, leading inevitably to disaster | 25 |
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