Health and Population

Question 1

Total Fertility Rate

Answer 1

The number of children who would be born per woman (or per 1,000 women) if she/they were to pass through the childbearing years

Question 2

One Child Policy

Answer 2

Used in places around the world to stop drastic increase in population

Question 3

Demographic transition

Answer 3

is a model that describes population change over time

Question 4

Malthus

Answer 4

Person who was deeply into economics

Question 5

Population Pyramid

Answer 5

A Population Pyramid is a pair of back-to-back Histograms (for each sex) that displays the distribution of a population in all age groups and in both sexes.

Question 6

Demography

Answer 6

the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations.

Question 7

Net migration

Answer 7

The net migration rate is the difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants throughout the year

Question 8

Infant mortality rate

Answer 8

is the number of deaths under one year of age occurring among the live births in a given geographical area during a given year

Question 9

Crude Death Rate

Answer 9

is the number of deaths occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year

Question 10

Crude Birth Rate

Answer 10

is the number of live births occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year,

Question 11

Life Expectancy

Answer 11

the average period that a person may expect to live.

Question 12

Young and Old Populations

Answer 12

The share of the dependent population is calculated as total elderly and youth population expressed as a ratio of the total population.

Question 13

Population Growth Rate

Answer 13

is the rate at which the number of individuals in a population increases in a given time period

Question 14

population

Answer 14

all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country.

Question 15

Rate of natural increase

Answer 15

a statistic that expressed a country or region’s annual growth rate; expressed as a percentage

Question 16

Demographic Indicators

Answer 16

that measure the population size, sex ratio, density and dependency ratio while vital statistics include indicators such as birth rate, death rate, and natural growth rate, life expectancy at birth, mortality and fertility rates.