Term | Definition |
Demographic Transition Model | how and why population growth grows at different rate around the world. |
Industrial | of, relating to, or characterized by industry |
Industrial Revolution | the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation. |
Crude Birth Rate | The birth rate is the total number of births per 1000 of a population each year |
Crude Death Rate | Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths in a population, |
Natural Increase Rate | is the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate of a population. |
Total Fertility Rate | the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime |
Infant Mortality Rate | compares the number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year. |
Zero Population Growth | the maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to only what is needed to replace the existing population. |
Primary Economic Activity | The primary sector of the economy is the sector of an economy making direct use of natural resources |
Infrastructure | the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities |
Subsistence Farming | farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing |
Agricultural Production | The primary sector of the economy is the sector of an economy making direct use of natural resources. |
Replacement Babies | |
amine | extreme scarcity of food. |
Epidemic | a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. |
Pandemic | prevalent over a whole country or the world. |
Agricultural Revolution | The development of crop and animal raising as a food source among human communities to supplement hunting and gathering. |
Mechanization | is the process of doing work with machinery |
The Medical Revolution | the leap of medical knowledge in stage 2 of the demographic transition |