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| Percentage of the total population, or the population of each sex, at each age level |
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| The ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land |
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| The total number of people divided by the total land area. |
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| A complete enumeration of a population. |
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| The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society. |
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| The total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society. |
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| The process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population. |
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| The scientific study of population characteristics. |
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| The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase. |
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| The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. |
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| The total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1000 live births in a society. |
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| Natural increase rate (NIR, RNI): |
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| The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate. |
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| The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. |
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| A bar graph that is used to display a percentage of total population in 5 year age groups. Starting with 0-4 at the base of the pyramid and the oldest group at the top. |
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| The number of males per 100 females in a population |
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| Total fertility rate (TFR): |
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| The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years. |
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| A decline in the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero. |
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| A conference held in Cairo Egypt in September 1994. It called for a plan calls for improved health care and family planning services for women, children and families throughout the world, and also emphasizes the importance of education for girls as a factor in the shift to smaller families. |
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| the amount of people an area can support |
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| Ways that people prevent pregnancies |
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| A figure that describes the number of children that die between the first and fifth years of their lives in a given population |
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| People opposite of Malthus |
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| Area of the Earth's surface that humans consider too harsh for occupancy (approx. 35-40%). |
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| Epidemiological transition: |
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| The distinctive cause of death in each stage of the demographic transition. Explains how countries' population changes. |
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| A curve shaped like the letter J, depicting exponential or geometric growth (1, 2, 4, 8, 16...). |
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| A figure indicating how long, on average, a person may be expected to live. |
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| British economist of late 1700's. considered the first to predict a population crisis. |
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When governments want people and their population to have a lot of children (want a growing population)
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Concerned with limiting population growth |
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| group who built on Malthus' theory and suggested that people wouldn't just starve for lack of food, but would have wars about food and other scarce resources. |
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| too many people in one place for the resources available |
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| Population agglomerations: |
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| When populations come together to form a collective group |
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| The number a mother has to have in order to replace the population |
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| a curve that depicts logistic growth; shape of an "S" |
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