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| Percentage of the total population, or the population of each sex, at each age level. |
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| The number of babies are born per 1000 people in a population |
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| Maximum demand or load that may be placed on a machine, resource, or system for extended periods under normal or specified conditions. |
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| number of deaths per thousand children within the first five years of life. |
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| Number of deaths per thousand children within the first five years of life. |
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| Number of deaths per year per 1000 people |
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| Demographic transition model |
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| A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time. |
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| Continued population increase despite reduced reproductive rates. |
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| The ratio of the number of people who are either too old or young to provide for themselves to the number of people who must support them through their own labor. |
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| Time period required for a population experiencing growth to double in size. |
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| Places that are not very populous relative to other areas. i.e. Desert, highlands, lowlands, jungles. |
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| Policies designed to favor one racial sector over others. |
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| Epidemiological Transition model |
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| replacement of population infectious diseases by chronic diseases over time due to expanded public health and sanitation |
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| Number of deaths of children less than one year of age per 1000 live births. |
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| Trait that has become more harmful than helpful. i.e. resistance to antibiotics. |
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| Claimed that population grows at an exponential rate while food production increases arithmetically. So eventually population growth would out space food production. |
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| Advocacy of population control programs to ensure enough resources for current and future populations. |
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| A value judgement based on the notion that the resources of a particular area are not great enough to support that area's current population. |
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| A measurement of the number of persons per unit land area. |
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| crude birth rate minus the crude death rate of a population. |
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| refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods, and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class. |
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| Lacking the normal population density |
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| proposal to end population growth through a variety of official and non governmental family planning programs |
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| Pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship. I.e. one migrant settles in a place then communicates to family and friends who in turn migrate there. |
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| movement that has a closed route and is repeated seasonally or annually. |
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| The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction. |
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| Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate. |
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| A mathematical prediction of the interaction of places, the interaction being a function of population size of the respective places and the distances between them. |
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| The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away. |
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| Movement that involves temporary recurrent relocation. i.e. military service |
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| Attractiveness of a product to a group of consumers by altering its physical location |
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Push-Incentive for migrants to leave a place
Pull-Attractions that draw migrants to a certain place |
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| people who leave their home because they are forced out |
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| Socioeconomic consequences of migration |
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| set of all points that can be reached by and individual given a maximum possible speed from a starting point |
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| Migration involving people to move upward as far as rural to urban. i.e. People moving from a farm to the suburbs to a city. |
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| a system of pastoral farming in which ranchers move livestock according to the seasonal availability of pastures |
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| movement that consists of one person migrating from one place to another |
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