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Limiting factor

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Scarcity of resources

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Demography

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Study of human population trends

3
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Immigration

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Movement of people into a country

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Emigration

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Movement of people out of a country

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Crude birth rate

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Births/1,000 individuals per year

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Crude death rate

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Deaths/1,000 individuals per year

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Doubling time

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The number of years it takes for a population to double

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Total fertility rate

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An estimate of the average number of years that an infant born in a particular year in a particular country can be expected to live

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Replacement-level fertility

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The number of offsprings that will replace the parents who conceived them when those parents die

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Life expectancy

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The average number of children that among any born in a particular year in a particular country can be expected to live

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Net migration rate

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The difference between immigration and emigration in a given year per 1,000 people

12
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Age structure diagram

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Visual representations of age structure within a country for males and females