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Aging Index |
the number of people aged 65 years and older per 100 children aged zero to 14 in a given population |
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AIDS |
A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles. |
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Arithmetic Density |
A measure of total population relative to land size. This is also called population density. |
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Census |
A periodic and official count of a country's population. |
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Child Mortality Rate |
The recording of the deaths of children between the ages of 1 through 5 per thousand. |
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Chronic Disease |
Also known as degenerative disease. This is a malady of longevity and old age. An example is heart disease;. |
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Crude Birth Rate |
The number of births per year per thousand people. |
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Crude Death Rate |
The number of deaths per year per thousand |
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Demographic Transition |
The shift in population growth. |
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Dot Map |
A common type of map used to display population. One mark is equal to a certain amount of people in an area. |
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Doubling Time |
The amount of time that it takes a population to multiple by 2. |
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Endemic |
A disease that spreads over a small area. |
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Eugenic Population Policy |
A policy that some governments have engaged in which is designed to favor one racial or culture sector of the population over others. |
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Expansive Population Policy |
A policy held by the former Soviet Union and some other communist societies in which large families were encouraged in order to increase the RNI. |
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Genetic Disease |
Also known as inherited disease. This is an illness that can be traced back through ancestry such as sickle-cell anemia or hemophilia. |
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Infant Mortality Rate |
One of the leading measures of the condition of a country's population. This is the number of baby's who die during the first year of life per thousand life births. |
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Infectious Disease |
About 65% of all diseases fall under this category. These result from an invasion of parasites that multiple within the body. An example is Malaria. |
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Life Expectancy |
The average number of years that someone may expect to stay alive. |
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Megalopolis |
A huge urban area that has extremely large populations.
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One-child Policy |
A program established by the Chinese government in 1979 to slow population growth in China. |
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Physiological Density |
A measure of population density that is found by dividing the total number of people by the area of ARABLE land. |
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Population Composition |
Aspects that make up a population. These can include sex, age, marital status, and education. |
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Population Density |
A measure of total population relative to land size. |
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Population Distribution |
Descriptions of locations on the Earth's surface where individuals or groups live. |
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Population Pyramid |
This is a visual representation of the composition of a population in teems of age and sex. |
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Rate of Natural Increase |
The difference between the number of births and number of deaths |
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Restrictive Population Policy |
A policy that us now generally enforced by the majority of the world's governments. This policy range from toleration and promotion of birth control to prohibition of large families. China's "One-Child Policy" is an example of this. |
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Stage Five |
This is a stage if the demographic transition characterized by a declining population. Birth rates continue to fall and drop below death rates. Death rates remain steadily low. |
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Stage Four |
This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by a decrease in population growth. The birth rate continue to fall while the death rates remain steadily low. |
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Stage One |
This is a stage of demographic transition characterized by low population growth. There are high birth rates and death rates in this stage. |
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Stage Three |
This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by a population explosion. Birth rates remain high although they begin to fall. Death rates are very low (still decreasing but close to leveling off.) |
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Stage Two |
This is the stage of demographic transition characterized by increased population growth. There are high birth rates and declining death rates. |
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Stationary Population Level |
A term abbrev. SPL that refers to a theory that the global population will stop growing some time during the 21st century and reach this stage. |
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Thomas Malthus |
A man that believed that the world's population was increasing faster than the food supply needed to sustain it. He thought that food supplies grew LINEAR and that population grew EXPONENTIALLY. |
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Total Fertillity Rate |
Average number of children born to a woman during her lifetime. A TFR of 2.1 or higher indicates a stable population. |
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Zero Population Growth |
A state in which a population is maintained at a constant level because the number of deaths is exactly offset by the number of births. |