Module 14 Flashcards
Limiting factor
Scarcity of resources
Demography
Study of human population trends
Immigration
Movement of people into a country
Emigration
Movement of people out of a country
Crude birth rate
Births/1,000 individuals per year
Crude death rate
Deaths/1,000 individuals per year
Doubling time
The number of years it takes for a population to double
Total fertility rate
An estimate of the average number of years that an infant born in a particular year in a particular country can be expected to live
Replacement-level fertility
The number of offsprings that will replace the parents who conceived them when those parents die
Life expectancy
The average number of children that among any born in a particular year in a particular country can be expected to live
Net migration rate
The difference between immigration and emigration in a given year per 1,000 people
Age structure diagram
Visual representations of age structure within a country for males and females
