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Countries that are of relatively low income or economically poorer than developed countries

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Developing (Industrializing) Country

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The practice of killing infants

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Infanticide

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People born between 1965-1980 and are now in their prime working years

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Generation X

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Ethnic homeland in the US South

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Black Belt

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A person with temporary permission to work in another country

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Guest worker

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Involuntary mass dispersions of a population from its home territory

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Diaspora

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People who leave their country because of persecution based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or political opinion

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Refugees

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The average number of children needed to replace both parents and stabilize population over time. Approximately 2.1.

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Replacement Level Fertility

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Short-term and cyclical movement that occurs repeatedly on a regular basis

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Circulation

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Deaths of children under five years of age

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Child Mortality

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People who today subscribe to the Malthusian view of population

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Neo-Malthusian

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The age that divides a poplaution into two halves so that one half is younger than this age and the other half is older

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Median Age

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The forced removal of one ethnic group by another ethnic group to create an ethnically consistant territory

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Ethnic Cleansing

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People who arrive at their destination country

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Immigrants

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The number of years it takes for a population to double in size

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Doubling Time

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The complications that potential migrants will need to overcome to reach their destinations

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Intervening Obstacles

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People who disagree with the Malthusian view of population and resources

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Anti-Malthusians

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Conceptualizes how crude birth and crude death rate as well as the resulting rate of natural increase change over time as countries go through industrialization and urbanization

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Demographic Transition Model (DTM)

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The average number of people per unit area (a square mile or kilometer) of arable land

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Physiological Denisty

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Geographer Wilbur Zelinsky’s conclusion that there are regularities in migration as an essential component of a country’s modernization process

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Zelinsky’s Mobility Transition Model

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The difference between the number of births and deaths in a given year, when expressed as a percentage of total population

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Rate of Natural Increase (RNI)

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A CBR greater than 30 births per 1000 people

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High Birth Rate

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23
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When moves are made across National Borders

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International Migration

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States located in the northern and midestern parts of the United States

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Snowbelt

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The method for calculating total population of a country or place based on natural increase and migration over a period of time (usually a year)

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Demographic Equation

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Migration that is done willingly

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Voluntary Migration

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27
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The portion of Earth’s surface with permanent human settlment

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Ecumene

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28
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Designed to curtail population growth by reducing fertility rates

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Anti-natalist Policies

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29
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The relatively stable relationship between the odds of migration and age across different countries

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Migration Age Profile

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30
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A phenomenon where a country or a place loses young, more educated, and skilled people through migration

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Brian Drain

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31
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The pattern in which humans are spread out on Earth’s Surface

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Population Distribution

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32
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When people move within the borders of a country

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Internal (Interregional) Migration

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Migrants going back, or returning, to their previus place of residence or origin.

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Return Migration

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34
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The difference between the number of immigrants and emmigrants

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Net migraiton

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35
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A gauge of the impact of migration on population change, determined by dividing a country’s net migration by its total population then multiplying by 1000

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Net Migration Rate (NMR)

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A term derived from the name Thomas Robert Malthus, an English economist and cleric, to mean either “of or relating to Malthus’s theory” or “a follower of Malthus”

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Malthusian

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37
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When refugees or displaced persons return to their home country

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Repatriated

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38
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People who do not move

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stayers

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39
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The number of farmers per unit of arable land

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Agricultural Density

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The degree of equality between men and women with respect to access to and control over both physical and social resources in the family community or society at large

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Womens status

41
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The state of being comfortable, healthy or happy

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Human well being

42
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Theory asserting that two contrasting sets of factors are at work in migration decisions

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Push-Pull Theory of Migration

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A Measure of how many infants die within the first year of their life per 1000 live births

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Infant morality rate

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The ratio of the number of men to number of women in a population

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Sex Ratio

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A person who migrates or moves

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Migrant

46
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Refers to the breakdown of a population into different age groups or cohorts

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Age structure

47
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The average number of people per unit area (a square mile or kilometer) of arable land

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Physiological Denisty

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Seeks to explain how changes in health serices and living standards affect patterns of disease

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Epdemiological Transition Theory

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The number of dependents in a population, that each 100 working age people (ages 15-64) must support

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Dependency Ratio

50
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The twentieth-century movement of 6 million African Americans from rural southern states to the cities of the midwestern and northeastern states

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THe great migration

51
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Migration based on the time of year

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Seasonal migration

52
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When migrants move back and forth between their home countries and those to which they have migrated

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Transnational Migration

53
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The attributes of other places tha make them appealing to potential migrants

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Pull factors

54
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States in the coastal areas and the South and Southwest United States

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Sunbelt

55
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Increase in food production resulting from the use of new farming methods

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Boserup Effect

56
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Land suitable for cultivation

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Arable Land

57
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Heavily populated areas that illustrated the unevenness in global population distribution; geographers have identified four population clusters on Earth: South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe

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Population clusters

58
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Mobility that implies a change in social hierarchy

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Social (upward) Mobility

59
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The makeup of the population by age and sex as well as by ethnic, racial, income and educational background

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Population Composition

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The average number of people per unit of land area (usually per square mile or kilometer)

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Arithmetic (Crude) Density

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A nearby attractive locale where migrants may decide to settle instead of going to the intended destination farther away

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Intervening opportunity

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Designed to curtail population growth by reducing fertility rates

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Anti-natalist Policies

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The number of elderly dependents in a population (usually older than 64) that every 100 working-age people must support

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Elderly Dependency Ratio

64
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People born from 1946-1964 during the post World War II uptick in Birth rate

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Baby Boomers

65
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When a country has the same number of births and deaths in a given year, its RNI is zero

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Zero Population Growth (ZPG)

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Factors that cause people to be dissatisfied with their present locales and want to move somewhere else

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Push Factors

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A disease that causes deterioration over time, such as canver, heart disease, and stroke

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Degenerative Disease

68
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Moves that occur within a metropolitian area

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Residential Mobility

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The average number of children born per woman during her reporductive lifetime, considered to be from 15-49 years old.

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Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

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A branch of medicine that studies the distribution, determinants, and control of diseases and other health conditions, such as tobacco use and sedentary lifestyle

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Epidemiology

71
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People born after the turn of the twenty-first century

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Gen z

72
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Migration carried out in a series of stages, usually from nearby to bigger and more distant places

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Step Migration

73
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The number of deaths per year per 1000 people

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Crude Death Rate (CDR) or Mortality Rate

74
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People who were born between 1981-2000; often referred to as millennials

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Generation Y

75
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The increased autonomy of women to make choices and shape their lives

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Women’s Empowerment

76
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Migration caused by forces out of one’s control, such as disasters, social conflicts, or developmental projects

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FOrced Migration

77
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The process by which some people’s migration to a new place leads their family members, friends and others to move to the same place

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Chain Migration

78
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A very useful graphic device for comparing age and sex structure

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Population pyramid

79
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People’s friends and relatives

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Social networks

80
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When people move from the countryside to cities

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Rural to urban Migration

81
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Designed to boost fertility rates and ultimately population growth

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Pro-natalist Policies

82
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All forms of geographical movement, including people’s everyday commuting and travel

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Spatial Mobility

83
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A phenomenon where herders and their livestock move seasonally between their summer and winter pastures

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Transhumance

84
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The flow of all migrants in the direction opposite a particular migration stream, from its destination back to the origin

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Counterstream

85
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Permanent movement within one region of a country, such as moving from the suburbs to the big city.

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Intraregional Migration

86
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Culturally specific notions of what it means to be a man or woman

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Gender Roles

87
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Someone who remain within his or her country;s borders despite being persecuted by their home country

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Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)

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The number of people a particular environment (or Earth as a whole) can support on a sustainble basis

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Carrying capacity

89
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A CBR between 10-20 births per 1000 people

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Low birth rate

90
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The statistical study of population and its change

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Demography

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The number of young dependents in a population (usually younger than 15) that every 100 working age people must support

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Youth Dependency ratio

92
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A phenomenon where a country or a place gains young, more educated and skilled people through migration

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brain Gain

93
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occurs when the human population exceeds the food supply

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Overpopulation

94
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A CBR between 20-30 births per 1000 people

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Transitional Birth Rate

95
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The act of a migrant leaving their place (country) of origin

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Emigration

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The average number of births per 1000 people; the traditional way of measuring birth rates

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Crude Birth Rate (CBR)

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A tool for calculating the doubling time of a population by dividing 70 by a country’s rate of natural increase (RNI)

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RUle of 70

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