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Natural Increase | Population growth measured as the excess of live births over deaths. Natural increase of a population does not reflect either emigrant or immigrant movements. |
Population density | A measure of total population relative to land size. |
Restrictive Population Policies | Government policies designed to reduce the rate of population growth. |
Physiological Population Density | The number of people per unit area of farmable land. |
Eugenic policies | Government policies designed to favor one racial sector over others. |
Expansive policies | Government policies that encourage large families and raise the rate of population growth. |
Demographic transition | the sequence of stages in population growth. Stage 1,2,3,4. |
Dot maps | Maps where one dot represents a certain number of phenomenon such as a population. |
Doubling time | the amount of time it takes for a population to double |
Population Pyramids | age structure diagram, is a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a human population. |
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) | A figure that describes the number of babies that die within the first year of their lives in a given population. |
Life Expectancy | A figure indicating how long, on average a person may be expected to live. Normally expressed in the context of a particular state. |
Arithmetic Population Density | The population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area. |
Population Explosion | The rapid growth of the world's human population during the past century, attended by ever |
Stationary Population Level | The level at which a national population ceases to grow. |