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| the study of population numbers, distribution, trends, and issues |
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| the world’s wealthiest countries; they have well-established infrastructures and their people are wellhoused, healthy, and have good literacy skills |
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| countries that have lower standards of living than developed countries; many have extensive poverty |
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| the number of births per 1000 people in a country in a given year |
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| the number of deaths per 1000 people in a country in a given year |
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| the number of new arrivals in a country in a given year per 1000 people |
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| the number of people leaving a country in a given year per 1000 people |
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| the rate at which a population increases (or decreases) in a year expressed as a percentage of the total population; calculated by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate |
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| a rapid rate of population growth as each generation doubles in size |
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| the time it takes a country to double its population, approximately 70 divided by the country’s growth rate |
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| the number of years it takes a country to double its population at its current growth rate |
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| the difference between the number of people immigrating to a country and the number of people emigrating |
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| the rate at which a country’s population increases or decreases; calculated by adding natural increase and net migration |
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| the average number of years an individual is expected to live |
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| DEmographic Transition Model |
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| a model that shows changes in a population’s birth and death rates and growth based on technological development |
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| death rate, calculated as number of deaths per 1000 people in a population |
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| the concept of limiting the size of families |
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| the average number of children born over the lifetime of a typical woman in a particular country |
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| a policy adopted by China to control population growth |
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| a bar graph that shows male and female populations back to back at age intervals of five years |
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| an age group in a population, for example, the number of people between the ages of 10 and 14 |
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| the proportion of the population (children and those over 65 years of age) that is being supported by the working age group |
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| the maximum number of people that can be sustained by an environment |
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| the pattern of where people live in an area |
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| the number of people living in a given area; calculated by dividing the population by its area |
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| a measure of how much nutrition in calories can be produced from a certain area; an area with fertile soil and adequate temperatures and precipitation will have a higher nutritional density than an area such as Canada’s North |
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