Chapter 2; Population Review 2022 Flashcards
What is Demography?
The study of pop. composition
What are CBR and CDR and what do they affect?
CBR is the # of people born each year out of 1000 living, and CDR is the # of people dead. These affect the NIR, and show up on the Demo. Transition model
What are TFR and IMR?
TFR is the number of children a woman is expected to have in her childbearing years, and IMR is the # of infants that die / births.
What does a high IMR say about a country?
It has limited health care
What marks the advancement of a society from stage 1 to 2?
Breakthrough in sanitation allows the CDR to go down, skyrocketing the NIR
What marks the advancement of a society from stage 2 to 3?
Contraceptives and family planning cause the CBR to go down, along with the NIR
picture the stages of the DTM with population pyramids
Stage one starts in a like bird beak shape, 2 is a triangle, it gets rounder and rounder until 5 is a diamond shape
What marks the advancement of a society from stage 4 to potential stage 5?
The NIR goes below zero, CBR is below CDR
Where does 2/3 of the world live?
East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Europe
What is the Dependency Ratio? What are the effects of a larger ratio?
of people too young or old to work/ # who can. A larger ratio puts a larger financial burden on workers
What is the Potential Support Ratio?
of young people / # of old people
What do people begin to die of in stage 3 of the Epidemiologic Trans.?
Degenerative Diseases, less pandemics
What is carrying capacity? what kind of density is it based on?
the # of people an area can support based on physiological density
What did Malthus think would happen?
We would run out of resources when the pop. boomed in 1800
Pro-natalist vs Anti- natalist?
Pronatalist is when the govt supports high birth rates, Anti is the opposite
