Population Vocabulary Continued Flashcards
Birth rate/ crude birth rate
Number of live births per 1,000 people in a population in a given year.
Age structure
Distribution of males and females among age groups in a population, ie- world population
Cultural carrying capacity
An optimum level that would allow most people to live is reasonable comfort and freedom without impairing the planet’s ability to sustain of future generations
Death rate/ crude death rate
Number of deaths per 1,000 people in a population in a given year.
Demographic transition
Countries become industrialized, first their death rate decline and the their birth rates.
Family planning
Provides educational and clinical services that help couples choose how many children to have and when to have them
Fertility rate
The number of children born to a woman in her lifetime
Infant mortality rate
The number of children per 1,000 live births who die before one year of age
Life expectancy
The average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live.
Migration
The movement of people in and/ or out of a geographic region (immigration and emigration).
Population change
(Births + immigration) - (deaths + emigration)= population growth
Replacement level fertility rate
The average number of children that couples in a population need to have to replace themselves.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
The average number of children born to a women in a population during their reproductive years.
