Population Flashcards
Why is scale important to population?
It is important due to all kinds of variation from region to region.
Demography
Study of Populatin
Population Density
A measure of total population relative to the land size. Assuming there is even distribution.
Arithmetic Pop. Density and an Example
People per square mile. Egypt is misleading due to crowding around Nile River Valley.
Physiological Population Density
People per unit area of arable land.
Population Distributions
Descriptions of locations on Earth’s surface where individuals or groups live.
Dot Maps
Maps which represent population distribution where one dot represents a certain number of people.
Name the 3 major clusters of population
East Asia, South Asia, and Europe.
Census
Counting of people in a country.
Malthusian Theory
Food growth is linear, but population growth is exponential.
What did T. Malthus overlook?
Food grows exponentially, his model was based on England, globalization, mercantilism, colonization, and agricultural revolutions.
Factors of calculation population growth.
Immigration, emigration, birth, and death.
National Increase Rate
Births-Deaths= NIR
Immigration
The importation of people to a country.
Emigration
The exportation of people from a country.
Total Fertility Rates
Number of children per child-bearing women.
Aging Index
The number of old people to young people.
Why is the international TFR decreasing?
Women choosing to have children later.
Doubling Time
How long it will take for the population to double.
Population Explosion
Rapid increase of births in a short period of time.
Zero Population Growth
Population is neither increasing, nor decreasing.
“Guns for Sterilization” Policy
When India tried to control population, they offered fun licenses to men who got sterilized after having 3 children.
Crude Birth Rate
The number of live births per thousand people.
Crude Death Rate
Number of deaths per thousand people.
