Population

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Baby boom

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A cohort of individuals born in the United States between 1946 in 1964 which was just after WWII and a time relative to peace and prosperity these conditions a lot for better education and job opportunities encouraging high rates of both marriage and fertility

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Age-sex distribution

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The number of people living in a given unit of area

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Baby bust

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. Of time during the 1960s and 1970s where fertility rates in the United States dropped as large numbers of women from the baby boom generation saw higher levels of education and more competitive jobs causing them to marry later in life as such the fertility rate job considerably and contrast the baby boom in which fertility rates are quite high

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Caring capacity.

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The largest number of people the environment of a particular area can sustainably support

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Census tract

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Small County subdivisions usually containing between 2500 and 8,000 people delineated by the US Census Bureau is an area of relatively uniform population characteristics economic status and living conditions

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Chain migration

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The migration event in which individuals follow the migratory path of preceding friends or family members to an existing community

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Child mortality rate

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Number of deaths per thousand children within the first five years of life

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Cohort

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The population group unified by specific common characteristic, such as age, it’s of subsequently treated as a statistical unit

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Cotton belt

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The term by which the American South used to be known, as a con historically dominated in the agriculture economy of the region. The same area is known as the new South or Sunbelt because people have migrated here from older cities and industrial north for a better climate and new job opportunities

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Crude birth rate

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The number of live births per year per thousand people

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Crude death rate

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The number of deaths per year per thousand people

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Demographic accounting equation

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An equation that summarizes the amount of growth or decline in a population within a country during a particular time. Taking into account but natural increase in that migration

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Demographic transition model

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A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates throughout time

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Demography

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The study of human populations, including the temporal and spatial dynamics

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Dependency ratio

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The ratio number of people who are either too old or too young to provide themselves to the number of people who must support them through their own labor. This is usually expressed in the form n:100, where n equals the number of dependents

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Doubling time

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Time period Required for population experiencing exponential growth to double its size completely

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Emigration

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The process of moving out of her particular country usually the individual person’s country of origin

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Exponential growth

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Growth that occurs when a fixed percentage of new people is added to the population each year. Exponential growth is compound because the fixed growth rate applies to an ever-increasing population

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Forced migration

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Immigration event in which individuals are forced to leave the country against their will

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Generation X

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A term coined by artist and author Douglas Coupland who describe people born in the United States between the years 1965 in 1980. This post baby-boom generation will have to support the baby boom cohort as they head into their retirement years

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Geodemography

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See population geography.

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Immigration

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The process of individuals moving into a new country with the intentions of remaining there.

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Infant mortality rate

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The percentage of children who died before their first birthday with in a particular area or country

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Internal migration

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The permanent or semi permanent movement of individuals within a particular country

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Intervening obstacles

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Any forces or factors that may limit human migration

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Involuntary migration

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See forced migration.

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Life expectancy

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The average age individuals are expected to live, which varies across space, between genders, and even between races

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Thomas Malthus

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Author of, essay on the principle of population, 1798, who claim that population grows at the exponential rate while food production increases arithmetically, and thereby that, eventually, population growth will out his food production
*remember: Malthus sounds like mouth, mouth=food

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Maternity mortality rate

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Number of deaths per thousand of women giving birth

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Migration

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A long-term move of a person from one political jurisdiction to another

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Natural increase rate

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The difference between the number of births and number of deaths within a particular country

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Neo-Mathusian

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Advocacy population control programs to ensure enough resources for current and future populations

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Overpopulation

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A value judgment based on the notion that the resources of a particular area are not great enough to support the area’s current population

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Physiologic density

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A ratio of human population to the area of cropland, using less developed countries dominated by subsistence agriculture

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Population density

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The measurement of the number of persons per unit land area

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Population geography

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A division of human geography concern with spatial variations in distribution, growth, and movements of population

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Population pyramid

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A model used in population geography to show the age and sex distribution of a particular population

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Pull factors

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Attractions to draw migrants to a certain place, such as a pleasant climate and employment or educational opportunities

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Push factors

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Incentives for potential migrants to leave the place, such as a harsh climate, economic recession, or political turmoil

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Refugees

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People who leave their home because they’re forced out, but not because they’re being officially relocated or enslaved

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Rust Belt

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The northern industrial states of United States, including Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, in which heavy industry was once the dominant o’clock economic activity. In the 1960s, 1970s, and the 1980s, the state lost much of the economic base to economically attractive regions of United States and the countries were labor was cheaper, leaving oil machinery to rest in the moist northern climate

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Sun Belt

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US region, mostly comprised of southeastern southwestern states, which is grown most dramatically since World War II

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Total fertility rate

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The average number of children born to women during her childbearing years

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Voluntary migration

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Movement of an individual who consciously and voluntarily decides to locate a new area, the opposite of forced migration

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Zero population growth

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Proposal to end population growth through a variety of official and nongovernmental family-planning programs