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Aging index

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The number of people age 65 years and older per 100 children ages 0 to 14 years in a given population

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Aids

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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

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A measure of total population relative to land size this is also called population density Natalie Martinez

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censes

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a periodic an official court of a country’s population Natalie Martinez

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Child mortality rate

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The recording of deaths of children between the ages one through 5 per thousand Natalie Martinez

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Chronic disease

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also known as degenerative disease this is a malady of longevity and old age and example of hard disease Natalie Martinez

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Crude birth rate

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The number of live births per year per thousand people in the population Natalie Martinez

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Crude death rate

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The number of deaths per year per thousand people Natalie Martinez

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Demographic transition

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The shift in population growth it is based on historical population transit to demographic characteristics birthrate and death rate to suggest that the countries total population growth rate cycle through stages as that country develops economically Natalie Martinez

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Dot map

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A common type of map used to display population one Mark is equal to a certain amount of people in an area Natalie Martinez

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Doubling time

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The amount of time it takes a population to multiply by to Natalie Martinez

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Endemic

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A disease has spread over a small area Natalie Martinez

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eugenic population policy

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A policy that some governments have engaged in which is designed to favor one racial or cultural sector of the population over others Natalie Martinez

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Expensive population policy

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A policy held by the former Soviet union another communist societies in which a large families were encouraged in order to increase the RNI NatalieMartinez

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Genetic disease

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also known as inherited disease this is an illness that can be traced back to ancestry such as sickle cell enemy or hemophilia Natalie Martinez

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Infant mortality rate

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One of the leading measures of the condition of a country’s population this is the number of babies who died during the first year of life per 1000 live births

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Infectious disease

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About 65% of all diseases fall under this category they result from an invasion of parasites the multiple within the body and example is malaria Natalie Martinez

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Life expectancy

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The average number of years of someone we expect to stay alive Natalie Martinez

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Megalopolis

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A huge urban area that has extremely large populations

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One child policy

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A program established by the Chinese government in 1979 to slow population growth in China Natalie Martinez

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Psychological density

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A measure of population density that is found by dividing the total number of people in an area of arable land Natalie Martinez

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Population composition

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aspects that make up a population this can include sex age in martial status and education Natalie Martinez

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Population density

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A measure of total population relative to land size Natalie Martinez

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Descriptions of locations on the earths surface for individuals or groups live Natalie Martinez

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Descriptions of locations on the earths surface for individuals or groups live Natalie Martinez

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Population explosion

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The rapid growth of the worlds human population during the past century attended by even shorter double times and accelerating rate of increase Natalie Martinez

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Population

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this is a visual representation of the composition of a population in terms of age and sexNatalie Martinez

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The difference between the number of births in the number of deaths Natalie Martinez

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The difference between the number of births in the number of deaths Natalie Martinez

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Restrictive population policies

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A policy that is not generally enforced by the majority of the world government 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 Natalie Martinez

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StageFive

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This is the stage of the demographic transition characterized by a decline in population birth rates continue to fall and drop a little desperate desperate to remain steady low and Natalie Martinez

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Stage four

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This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by a decrease in population grew the birth rates continue to fall while death rates remain steady low Natalie Martinez

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Stage one

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This is a stage of the demographic transitionCharacterized by low population growth these are high birth and death rates in the stage Natalie Martinez

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Stage three

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This is a stage of the demographic transition characterized by population explosion birth rates remain high although they begin to fall death rates are very low still decreasing but close to leveling off Natalie Martinez

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Stage two

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This is the stage of demographic transition characterized by increased population growth there are high birthrates and declining death rates Natalie Martinez

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Stationary population level

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A team abbreviation SLP the refers to a theory that the global population will stop growing sometime during the 21st-century and reach the stage Natalie Martinez

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Malthusian theory

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Thomas Malthus believe that the worlds population was increasing faster than the food supply needed to sustain it he thought the food supplies through literally in the population grew exponentially Natalie Martinez

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Total fertility rate

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Average number of children born to women during her lifetime a TFR of 2.1 or higher indicates a stable population Natalie Martinez

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Zero population growth

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A state in which population is maintained at a constant level because the number of deaths is exactly offset by the number of births Natalie Martinez

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ehrlich theory

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Stanford university professor Paul predicted worldwide famine in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation as well as other major Social upheaval and advocated immediate action to live in population growth tears of a population explosion or widespread in the 1950s and 1960s but the book and it’s also brought the idea to an even wider audience Natalie Mar

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epidemiological transition model

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process by which the pattern of mortality and disease is transformed from one high mortality among infants and children and episode of famine and epidemic affecting all age groups to one degenerative and man-made disease such as those attribute it to smoking affecting principally the elderly it is generally believed that the epidermal attic transitions prior to the 20th century those in today’s industrialized countries were closely associated with rising standard of livingNutrition and sanitation Natalie Martinez

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boserups theory

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Also known as agricultural intensification status of the population change drives the intensity of agricultural production or position counted the mouth easy and theory that the agricultural methods determine population be a limit on food supplies Natalie Martinez