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Agricultural Density
Definition
An estimate of the pressure of people on the rural areas of a country.
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Carrying Compacity
Definition
Number of people an area can support on a sustainable basis.
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Cohort
Definition
Refer data to a population group unfied by a spesified common characteristic.
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Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
Definition
birthrate; the anual number of live births per 1000 population.
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Crude Death Rate (CDR)
Mortality Rate
Definition
The annual number of deaths per 1000 population.
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Crude Density

Arithmatic Density

Definition
Most common and least satisfying expression of variation.
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Demographic Equasion
Definition
Summorises the contribution made to regional population change over time by a combenation of natural change and net migration.
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Demographic Transition
Definition
Relating to the control of economic development.
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Demography
Definition
Statistical study of human population
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Dependant Ratio
Definition
Simple measure of the number of economic dependants
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Doubling Time
Definition
the rate of natural increase can be related to the time it takes for a population to double if the current growth rate remains constant
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Ecumene
Definition
Comprises the permanently inhabital areas on the earths surface
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Homeostasis Plateau
Definition
Population is equal to the carrying compacity of the occupied area
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J-curve
Definition
Growth
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Malthus
Definition
an English economist and demograoher
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Neo-Malthusuanism
Definition
national and international program of population limitation ptimarily through birth control and family planning
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nonecumene
Definition
comprises of the permanetly uninhabital areas of the earths surface
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overpopulation
Definition
an environment or territory is unable to support the present population
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Physiological Density
Definition
an expression of population pressure exerted on agricultural lands
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Population Density
Definition
relationship between the number of inhabitants and the area they occupy
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Population Geography
Definition
focuses on the number, composition, and distrabution of human being in relation to variations in the conditions of earth space
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Population Projection
Definition
esaments of future population size, age, and sex composition.
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Population pyramid
Definition
a graphic devise that represents a populations sex and age composition
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rate
Definition
record the frequency of an occurance of an event
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rate of natural increase
Definition
population is derived by subtracting the crude death rate by the crude birth rate
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replacement level
Definition
the level of fertility at whitch a population replaces themselves
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S-curve
Definition
when the J-curve is bent to be horizontal it becomes the S-curve
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total fertility rate (TFR)
Definition
average number of children a woman will have over the course of her childbearing years
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Zero population growth (ZPG)
Definition
condition for indavidual countries where births plus imagration equal deaths plus emigration.
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