Chapter 4 Flashcards
Demography
encompasses vital statistics about people, such as birth rates, deaths, and where they live, as well as total population size.
Crude Birth Rate
the number of births in a year per one thousand persons.
Total Fertility Rate
Number of children born to average woman in a population in her entire reproductive life.
Zero Population Growth
occurs when births and immigration just equals deaths and emigration.
Replacement Level Fertility
People just replace themselves.
Crude Death (Mortality) Rates
Deaths per thousand persons in a year.
Life Expectancy
The average age that a newborn can expect to attain in a given society/population.
Dependency Ratio
The number of non-working people to the number of working people in a population.
Pronatalist Pressures
factors that increase people’s desire to have babies.
Technological Optimists believe:
technological advancement has been developed because there are more people, supporting the view the “people are the greatest resource.”
Birth rates generally decrease as development increases because…
women have more control and influence over family planning.
