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Agricultural Population Density
Number of Farmers divided by the arable land
Arable Land
Land suitable for farming/agriculture
Physiological Population Density
Population of a region / arable (farmable) land
Arithmetic Population Density
Population of a region divided by total land area.
Baby Boom
Temporary marked increase in the birth rate
Census
A complete count of of a population
Child Mortality Rate
Total number of child deaths per 1,000 live births
Crude Birth Rate
Total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people in the society
Crude Death Rate
Total number of deaths per 1,000 people in a society
Dependency Ratio
Number of people too young or too old to work compared to workers
More Developed Country (MDC)
Also known as a relatively developed country or a developed country, country that has progressed further along the development continuum
Doubling Time
Number of years needed to double the population
Epidemiological Transition Model
The theory that says that there is a distinct cause of death in each stage of the demographic transition model. It can help explain how a country's population changes so dramatically.
Industrial Revolution
Time during the 19th century, major improvements in manufacturing goals and delivering them to market
Infant Mortality Rates
the number of infant deaths (under age 1) per 1000 live births
Less Developed Countries (LDC)
Non-industrialized/poor countries.
Stage two, early three
Life Expectancy
Average number of years an infant can expect to live
Thomas Malthus
An English economist who was one of the first to argue that the world's population increase was far outrunning the development of food production
Malthusian Theory
The theory that population grows faster than food supply
Medical Revolution
Time during the late 20th countries, when medical technology from Europe and North America diffused to developing countries
Rate of Natural Increase (RNI)
The percentage of annual growth in a population excluding migration.
Neo-Malthusian
A belief that the world is characterized by scarcity and competition in which too many people fight for too few resources. Named for Thomas Malthus, who predicted a dismal cycle of misery, vice, and starvation as a result of human overpopulation
Population Pyramids
A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex.
Anti-Natalist Policies
Government policies to reduce the rate of natural increase
Pro-Natalist Policies
Government policies to increase the rate of natural increase
Sex Ratio
The number of males per 100 females in the population.
Total Fertility Rate
The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years.
Zero Population Growth
A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero.
Demography
The scientific study of population characteristics
Overpopulation
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Population Center
An area of land where people are most dense, including East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe.
Demographic Transition Model
A sequence of demographic changes in which a country moves from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates through time.
Mobility
A general term covering all types of movement from one place to another
Periodic movement
Movement - for example, college attendance or military service - that involves temporary, recurrent relocation
Net migration
The difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants
Push Factors of Immigration
reasons people emigrate and leave their homes such as economic troubles, overcrowding, poverty
Intraregional Migration
movement within a region
Interregional Migration
Movement from one region to another
Migration Transition
Change in migration patterns in a society caused by industrialisation, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition
Gravity Model
Predicts interaction between places on the basis of their population size and distance between them.
Migrant Workers
people, typically farmers, who move from place to place to harvest fruits and vegetables
Refugee
a person who has a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion
Asylum seeker
Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee
brain drain
the loss of highly educated and skilled workers to other countries
guest worker
a foreign laborer living and working temporarily in another country
intervening obstacle
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
internal migration
permanent movement within the same country
transhumance
The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
Ravenstein's Laws of Migration
A set of 11 "laws" that can be organized into three groups: the reasons why migrants move, the distance they typically move, and their characteristics.
remittance
Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries
migration selectivity
Only people exhibiting certain characteristics in a population choosing to migrate
step migration
migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages
chain migration
pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links
activity space
The area within which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity
urbanization
An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
Atlantic Slave Trade
the buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas
carrying capacity
Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support
contraception (birth control)
methods of preventing conception
Diaspora
A dispersion of people from their homeland
Distribution
Description of locations on Earth's surface where populations live
Immigration
Migration to a new location
fertility
The production of offspring within a population
Forced Migration
Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors.
Great Migration
movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920
infrastructure
Fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools
internally displaced person
Someone who has been forced to migrate for similar political reasons as a refugee but has not migrated across an international border
Migration
Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.
migration stream
the constant flow of migrants from one country into another country
population composition
Structure of population in terms of age, sex and other properties such as marital status and education
S-curve
a curve that depicts growth; shape of an "S." The leveling off of a J-Curve exponential growth.
Voluntary Migration
Permanent movement undertaken by choice.
Pull Factors of Immigration
Reasons to migrate to a new area such as Economic Opportunity ($)
Jobs/ workers were needed
Land
Peace and stability
Freedom to make a better life
degenerative disease
any disease in which deterioration of the structure or function of tissue occurs
Maternal Mortality Rate
The number of women who die giving birth per 100,000 births
Internal migration
Migration within national boundaries
Carrying capacity
The number of people an area can sustain without critically straining its resources
Forced migration
An individual migrates against their will, including events that produce slaves, refugees, internally displaced persons, and asylum seekers
Arithmetic population density
Measure of the people within a given area divided by the total land area
Physiological density
Measure of the number of people per arable land
Agricultural population density
Measure of the number of farmers per arable land
Dependency ratio
A measure of the economic impact of younger and older cohorts on the economically productive members of a population
refugee
Individuals protected by law who cross national boundaries to seek safety from armed conflict or persecution
Population pyramid
Provides a visual representation of a population in terms of age and sex as well as a good indication of the dependency ratio within a country and is to assess population growth and decline and to predict markets for goods/services
Rural-urban migration
The movement of people from the countryside to the city which causes two things to happen; increasing proportion of people living in towns and cities and expansion of urban areas
Chain migration
Immigrants who follow family and/or friends to the same destination
Life expectancy
Average number of years an infant newborn can expect to live; number varies within countries, cities, ethnicities, sexes, and between MDCs and LDCs.
Population Distribution
The pattern of people scattered over an area
Population Density
The number of people within a given area
Major Population Concentrations
Regions with a high arithmetic density
Sun Belt
The states in the south and west coast where in the 1960s and 70s , large numbers of white, middle class Americans from older northeastern and Midwest cities
Immigration Policies
Policies that address the movement of persons across borders
doubling time
The length of time for a population to double in size
Aging index
The number of people age 65 and older per 100 children ages 0-14
Ester Boserup
Theorized that people will find ways to increase food production and improve agricultural methods in times of pressure
Aging population
An increasing median age in the population due to declining fertility rates/rising life expectancy
Intervening opportunity
The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away
Economic Consequences
Slower economic growth, fewer workers to contribute to the tax base, more people collecting pension benefits, increased health care costs
Ecumene
The habitable parts of the world such as along fertile rivers and plains
Ethnic cleansing
The effort to rid a country/region of a particular ethnicity either through forced migration or genocide
Political Consequences
Policy responses to counter the effects of aging population