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| the time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entiresly on hunting and gathering |
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| a complete ennumeration of a population |
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| the total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society |
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| the total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society |
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| the process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low eates of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population |
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| the scientific study of population characteristics |
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| the number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force |
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| the number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
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| the portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement |
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| distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition |
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| branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that affect large numbers of people |
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| a series of improvements in industrial technology that transormed the process of manufacturing goods |
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Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) |
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| the total number of deaths in a year among infants under one year old for every 1,000 live births in a society |
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| the average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions |
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| medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa |
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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 - the crude death rate |
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| the number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living |
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| disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population |
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| a bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex |
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| the number of males per 100 females in the population |
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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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Zero Population Growth (ZPG) |
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| a decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals 0 |
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