Population

avatar
Created by
Valeria Ortiz

Cards (23)

  • Agricultural Density

    The number of farmers to the total amount of arable land
  • Antinatalist Policy

    Government policy that supports lower birth rates
  • Arable Land

    Land suited for agriculture
  • Arithmetic Density

    The total number of people divided by the total land area
  • Carrying Capacity

    The total population size that the environment can support
  • Census
    A complete enumeration of a population
  • Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
    The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people
  • Crude Death Rate (CDR)
    The total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people
  • Demography
    The scientific study of population characteristics
  • Dependency Ratio
    The number of people under age 15 and over age 64 compared to the people who work
  • Doubling Time
    The number of years needed to double a population
  • Ecumene
    Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement
  • Epidemiologic Transition
    The process of change in the distinctive causes of death in each stage of the DTM
  • Industrial Revolution
    A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods
  • Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
    The total number of deaths in a year among babies under a year of age for every 1,000 live births in a society
  • Life Expectancy
    The average number of years a person is expected to live
  • Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR)
    The annual number of female deaths per 100,000 live births from a cause of pregnancy or accidental causes
  • Natural Increase Rate (NIR)
    The difference between the crude birth rate and the crude death rate
  • Overpopulation
    When the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of population
  • Physiological Density
    The number of people per unit area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture
  • Pronatalist Policy
    Government policy that supports higher birth rates
  • Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
    The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childearing years
  • Zero Population Growth
    A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero