APHG vocab test #8

Dependent population

considered too young or too old to work full time. younger than 15; older than 64

depend on the workforce

Dependency ratio

comparison between potential workforce and dependent population

Crude Birth Rate (CBR)

number of live births per year for each 1,000 people

Total fertility rate (TFR)

the average number of children who would be born per woman in her childbearing ages, assuming she is alive

Life expectancy rate

the average number of years people live

Infant mortality rate (IFR)

the number of children who die before their first birthday

Crude death rate (CDR)

the number of deaths per 1,000 people in a year

Rate of natural increase (RNI)

the percentage at which a country’s population is growing or declining, without the impact of migration.

Doubling time

the time it takes for a quantity to double in size

Demographic Transition Model (DTM)

Shows five typical stages of population change that countries experience as they modernize. High stationary, early expanding, late expanding, low stationary, declining

Epidemiological Transition Model (ETM)

extension of the DTM, explains the changing death rates and more common causes of death within societies

1. Disease and Famine

2. Receding Pandemics

3. Degenerative and Human-Created Diseases

4. Delayed Degenerative Diseases

5. Reemergence of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases

Malthusian Theory

theory that food production would increase arithmetically

Boserup Theory

the more people there are, the more hands there are to work, rather than just more mouths to feed

Neo-Malthusians

those who accept the Malthusian theory as correct today

Antinatalist policies

attempt to decrease the number of births in a country, are often used by developing countries