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| In most countries there are more young people than there are old people. This age group consists of most of the armed forces but there is still a problem with providing jobs for these people. (ages 15-24) |
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| Family planning is the idea that a government puts regulations on how many children a couple can have in order to manipulate the population growth rate. |
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Replacement Level Fertility |
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When two adults have two children of their own in order to keep the cycle going. |
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World Health Organization (WHO) |
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| A humanitarian organization established in 1948 under the ECOSOC umbrella of the UN. Who aids in the development of national health administrations and provides advisory services. |
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| People who are displaced from their own countries. They are usually fleeing to escape genocide, politicide, persecution of anykind, etc. |
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Internally Displaced People (IDPs) |
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| IDPs are refugees who have been relocated to somewhere within their own countries. |
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| Process by which population shifts from the countryside and suburbs into cities. Which increases the likelihood of political decmocracy. |
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| A countries ability to transport people, goods, etc.; mobility is a huge part of a coutry's economic development. |
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Atleast half of the worlds population is extremely poor, about 2 billion people. |
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| Deals with the illegal buying and selling of human beings for forced labor, bonded labor, or sex slavery. About 12.3 million people are subjected to it each year. |
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