Population

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Chapter 4.1

• Population

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Population

• The number of people living in a region

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Demography

• Study of population patterns and changes

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Birth Rate

• The number of births per 1000 people per year

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Death Rate

• The number of deaths per 1000 people per year

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Rate of Natural Increase(growth rate)

• Growth caused by having more births than deaths
  in a year (does not include immigration or
  emigration)

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Doubling Time

• The number of years it will take a population to
  double in size if it maintains its current growth
  rate

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Total Fertility Rate

• The average number of children a woman will have
  in her lifetime

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Infant Mortality Rate

• The yearly number of children who die before
  reaching the age of one year per 1000 live births

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Negative Population Growth

• Death rates are higher than birth rates

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Zero Population Growth

• Birth rates and Death rates are the same.

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Dependency Ratio

• Ratio of people who are not old enough or too old
  to work and people who work
• (People not in labor force 0-14 and 65)
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• (People in labor force 15-65)

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Population Distribution

• Pattern of human settlement where people live
• World-wide uneven pop. distribution

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Population Density

• Avg. number of people living per square mile or
  kilometer

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Urban population

• Percentage of the total population living in
  areas termed urban by that region (usually towns
  of more than 2000 people)

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Metropolitan Areas

• Cities and their surrounding urban areas (suburbs)

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Energy consumption

• Total amount of energy used by each region per
  year divided by the number of people living in
  that region

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Gross National Product (GNP)

• Measure of a nations wealth, determined from
  annual profits generated by all goods and
  services exchanged that year.

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Human Development Index (HDI)

• Countries are ranked from 1 to 177 by UN
• Measures human well-being (quality of life)
• Use income, life expectancy, and level of
  education when making list

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Arable Land

• Farmland land capable of growing crops