Population Flashcards
Agriculture Density
The ratio of the # of farmers to the amount of arable land
Psychologic Density
The number of people per unit area of arable land.
Sex ratio
The # of males per females in the population
Crude birth rate
The total # of live births in a year for every 1,000 people
Demographic transition
The long-term trend of declining birth and death rates
Epidemiologic
The process of change in distinct causes of death in each stage of demographic transition
Doubling time
The # of years needed to double a population assuming a constant rate of natural increase
Infant morality rate
The total # of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year of age for every 1,000 live births
life expectancy
The average # of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medial conditions
Crude death rate
The total # of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive
total fertility rate
The average # of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years
Dependency ratio
The # of people under age 15 and over age 64 compared to the # of people active in the labor force
NRI
The % growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate- the crude death rate
Industrial Revolution
A series of improvements in tech. that transformed the process of manufacturing goods
Arithmetic Density
The total # of people divided by the land area
