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| the number of people in an areas exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living |
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| portion of the earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement |
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| number of people occupying an area of land |
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| the total number of people divided by the total land area |
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| the number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture |
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the ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture
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| land suitable for farming |
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| the total number of live births in a year for ever 1,000 people alive in society |
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| the total number of deaths in a year for 1,000 people alive in the society |
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| natural increase rate (NIR) |
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| the percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate |
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| total fertility rate (TFR) |
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| the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years |
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| the number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
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| infant mortality rate (IMR) |
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| the total number deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births in a society |
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| average number of years an individual is expected to live, based on current social, economic, and medical conditions |
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| largest number of individuals that can survive over a period of time in a given environment |
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| demographic transition model |
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| process of change in a society's population |
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| calculates total population births-deaths +/- net migration = total population |
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| continual population increase despite reduced reproductive rates |
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| demographic transition model stage 4, CBR=CDR |
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| bar graph that displays a country's population distribution by age and sex age distribution |
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| the estimated population in a certain time in the future |
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| number of people who are too young or too old to work, compared to the number of people in their productive years |
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| number of males per hundred females in the population |
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