Population Aging: Demographic and Geographic Perspective

Question 1

The study of why and how populations change over time and become smaller, larger, or older due to the interrelationships among fertility, mortality, and migration patterns.

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Demography

Question 2

Define Demography

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Looking into what causes populations to change over time in regards to their size, age, relationships, fertility, and migration patterns

Question 3

What are the 3 major components of demographic study?

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1. Mortality
2. Fertility
3. Migration

Question 4

What are the 4 demographic transition stages that developed countries went through since the 1800s?

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1. Population explosion
2. Population implosion
3. Population “displosion”
4. Technoplosion

Question 5

Population aging changing the causes of death from being infections and diseases, to age-related degenerative diseases

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Global Epidemiological Transitions

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Birth Cohorts are?

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Individuals born in the same year

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Individuals born in the same year

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Birth Cohort

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A set of birth cohorts who share particular life experiences and exhibit characteristics that distinguish it from other generations.

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Generation

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Generations are:

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A set of birth cohorts that share many life experiences and have distinguishing characteristics that sets them apart from other generations

Question 10

Generation born between 1946 - 1965

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Boomers

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Born between 1965 and 1980

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Gen X

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Born between early mid 1980s and the late 1990s

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Millennials or Gen Y

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Born between late 1990s and about 2012

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Gen Z

Question 14

Average number of years someone can live without chronic disability

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Active Life Expectancy

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The number of people <19 and 65+ divided by the number of people who are “eligible” to be in the labour force (age 20 to 64).

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Total Dependency Ratio

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A shift from high fertility and high mortality to low fertility and low mortality, usually through a period of about 100 years.

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Demographic transition

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What is the first phase of demographic transition?

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Population explosion

Question 18

The population of most countries concentrating in relatively small areas

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Population implosion

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Population implosion is

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The population of most countries concentrating in relatively small areas

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Demographic transition is

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A shift from high fertility and high mortality to low fertility and low mortality, usually through a period of about 100 years.

Question 21

The population of a specific geographic area either experiencing in or out migration or immigration

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Population displosion

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The rapid spread of technological developments

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Technoplosion

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What is technoplosion?

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The rapid spread of technological developments

Question 24

UN claims that the number of old people will surpass the number of young people by _____

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2050

Question 25

What are the 4 economic reasons why global aging will not create an economic crisis?

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1. Declining fertility leads to more females in the labor force
2. Fewer children means healthier, smarter, and better-educated children
3. Increased longevity contributes to a boost to savings rates
4. People are planning for longer work lives

Question 26

Developing countries experience population ____ than other more developed countries

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quicker

Question 27

“oldest old” refers to what age?

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80+

Question 28

the sex ratio refers to ________________________________

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the number of males per 100 females