Demography

Question 1

What is a longevity gap?

Answer 1

Difference of average expected life spans between different groups of people, religion, nations, races

Question 2

What is maternal mortality rate?

Answer 2

Annual number of deaths of women from pregnancy related to every 1,000 live births

Question 3

What is total fertility rate?

Answer 3

The average number of children a women will have throughout her lifespan

Question 4

What is natural increase rate (NIR)?

Answer 4

percent of growth in population each year (birth rate minus death rate)

Question 5

What is arithmetic density?

Answer 5

Total number of people divided by total land area

Question 6

Characteristics of stages in demographic transition

Answer 6

Stage 1: birth and death rate are high
Sate 2: Birth rate is high and death rate is rapidly decreasing
Sage 3: Birth rate slows death rate still decreases but slows
Stage 4: Both birth and death rates are low

Question 7

What is the dependency ratio?

Answer 7

Number of people under the age of 15 and over the age of 64 compared to the number of people in the active work force

Question 8

Encumene

Answer 8

Portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement

Question 9

Natality

Answer 9

Ratio of live births to an area of population