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| Society's change in natural increase, fertility, and mortality rates over time. |
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| The scientific study of population characteristics |
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| The time around 8000 B.C. when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied on hunting and gathering. |
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| Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) |
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| The annual number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age, compared with total live births. |
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| Total Fertility Rate (TFR) |
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| The average number of children per woman in a society |
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| The total number of people divided by the total land area. |
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| A problem that results when an area's population exceeds the capacity of an environment to support it at an acceptable standard of living. |
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| The area of the Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. |
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| In a region, the number of people supported by a unit area of arable land. |
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| The ratio of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land. |
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| The total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society |
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| The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society. |
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| Natural Increase Rate (NIR) |
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| The percentage by which a population grows in one year. |
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| The number of years it takes for a population to double. |
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| Measures the average number of years a newborn infant can live at current mortality levels. |
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| Began in England second half of the 18th century. A conjunction of major improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods and delivering them to market. |
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| In the second half of the 19th century when medical technology invented in Europe and North America diffused to less developed countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. |
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| Zero Population Growth (ZPG) |
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| The condition when CBR declines to the point where it equals the CDR, and the NIR approaches zero. |
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| A bar graph that displays a country's population by age and gender groups. |
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| The number of people who are too old or too young to work, compared to the number of people in their productive years. |
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| The number of males per hundred females in the population. |
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| Focuses on distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition. |
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| The branch of medical science concerned with incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that affect large numbers of people. |
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| Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high percentage of the population. |
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| A means of collecting statistical data on a population through a set of surveys mailed to every address in the nation. |
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