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| the scientific study of population characteristics |
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| ratio of number of farmers to land |
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| the number of people who are too young or too old to work |
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| the time when humans first domesticated plants and animals |
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| the number of years to double a populcation |
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| government accounting of population and housing |
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| the portion of earth that is permanently settled |
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| total number of live births in a year per 1000 people |
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| focus on distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition |
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| total number of deaths in a year per 1000 people |
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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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| combined factors of natural increase, fertility and mortality |
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| a conjunction of major improvements in industrial technology that transforms the process of manufacturing goods and delivering them to market |
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| natural increase rate (NIR) |
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| percentage by which a population grows in a year |
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| infant mortality rate (IMR) |
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| number of infant deaths under the age of 1 to live births |
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| ration of people to arable land (arable land = land suited to agrigulture) |
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| how long people are expected to live |
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| European and North American medical technology used to assist developing countries |
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| when crude birth rate = crude death rate and infant mortality rate is near 0 |
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| the number of people in an area where it exceeds the resources of the area |
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| disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a high portion of the population |
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| bar graphs depicting gender and age |
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| number of males per 100 females in a population |
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| measures number of births in a society |
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