Unit 2- Flashcards
Ecumene
Sustained population
Where there is permanent populations
Demography
The study of population characteristics
Population density
Number of people occupying land
Arithmetic density
of people per square mile
Demographic transition model
Birth, death, population
Newly industrialized country
Living longer
Less being born
Access to birth control (Womans rights)
Ex-
Mexico
Vietnam
China
-factory countries
Dependency ratio
People who don’t work/ or are dependent on those who work
Eugenics
Purposeful manipulation of a population
Ex- genocide (holocaust, Rwanda), Louisiana state senator payed 1000 dollars to get her tube tied
Arithmetic growth
Slow growth
Exponential growth
Fast growth
Cohort
a group of people with a common statistical characteristic
Crude Birth rate
the number of live births per thousand of population per year.
Cornucopian/Boserup
We will figure it out
One mouth two hands
Rate of natural increase
Per year how many people born each year
CBR-CDR/1000= natural increase
Dependency ratio
Working vs non working
Demographic transition model
Stage blah blah blah
Arithmetic density
How many people per square mile
Agricultural density
How many people in the population make their living on farming
Doubling time
Amount of time to takes for pop to double
Physiological density
People relative to farmable land
Malthusian
Poor peoples fault
Everyone’s gonna die
Not enough resources