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Chapter 13 Population

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Demography   The statistical study of human populations, specifically birth rates, death rates, natural increase rates, and other factors that affect population change in an area or country.  
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Rate of natural increase   The difference between the crude birth rate and crude death rate.  
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Crude birth rate   A figure obtained by dividing the number of births in one year by the population and multiplying by 1000.  
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Crude death rate   A figure obtained by dividing the number of deaths in one year by the population and multiplying by 1000.  
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Population growth rate   The fractional rate at which the number of individuals in a population increases. (Births - Deaths + Immigrants - Emigrants) / population * 1000  
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Net migration Rate   The difference between the immigration and emigration rates.  
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Doubling Time   The time required for a population to double in size. Can be calculated by using the "rule of seventy". Divide 70 by the natural increase rate for a country to determine the approximate doubling time for that country,  
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Demographic Transition Model (Stage 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5)   A model that can be used to show the changes in a population's birth rates and death rates, and growth based on its technological development.  
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Life expectancy   The average number of years that an individual is expected to live.  
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Fertility rate   The number of children a woman will have in her lifetime.  
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Population density   The number of people living in a given area.  
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Crude density   Can be determined by dividing the population of a country by its area.  
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Nutritional density   The measure of how much nutrition in calories an area of land can produce.  
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Carrying capacity   The number of people that the land can support. If the population increases beyond this number there will likely be famine or disease to reduce the population to a manageable level.  
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Population census   The collection of statistics about people and activities. In Canada one of these is held every ten years, with a less complete compilation every five years.  
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Population pyramid   A graph divided into five year intervals by male and female that shows the age and sex structure of a population.  
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Dependency ratio   The ratio between the number of people that are working and those that are over the age of 65 and under the age of 15.  
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Overpopulation   Can be determined using the ratio of population to available resources. If a given environment has a population of ten, but there is food or drinking water enough for only nine, then that environment is suffering from ___________________.  
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China's one-child policy   A planned birth policy implemented to deal with the problem of overpopulation. Families are allowed to have one child, additional children will result in large fines.  
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population distribution   the way people are spaced over the earth's surface  
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