AP Human Geography Population Vocabulary
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Demography: The scientific study of population characteristics.
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Arithmetic Population Density: The total number of people
divided by the total land area.
Malaria: A disease caused by mosquitoes implanting parasites
in the blood.
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AIDS: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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Physiological Population Density: The number of people per
unit of area of arable land
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Natalist Policies: Government policies that encourage or
discourage births
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Population distribution: A description of how individuals are
distributed with respect to one another
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Pro-Natalist Policies: Government policies to increase the rate
of natural increase
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Megalopolis: A very large, heavily populated city or urban
complex.
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Anti-Natalist Policies: Government policies to reduce the rate
of natural increase
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Census: The official count of a population
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Total fertility rate: The number of children born to an average
woman in a population during her entire reproductive life
One Child Policy: Act in China that allows people to have
only 1 child in the city and 2 children in the countryside.
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Old-age dependency ratio: The number of people 65 years of
age for every 100 people between the ages of 15-64.
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Child dependency ratio: The number of people between the
ages of 0 and 14 for every 100 people between the ages of 1564.
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Doubling time: The time required for a population to double in
size
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Population explosion: A sudden large increase in the size of a
population
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Zero Population Growth: When the birth rate equals the death
rate
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Crude birth rate: The number of live births per year per 1,000
people.
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Crude death rate: The number of deaths per year per 1,000
people.
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Natural Increase Rate: The percentage by which a population
grows in a year
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Demographic transition: Change in a population from high
birth and death rates to low birth and death rates
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Stationary Population Level: The level at which a national
population ceases to grow
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Population composition: Structure of population in terms of
age, sex and other properties such as marital status and
education
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Population pyramids: A bar graph representing the distribution
of population by age and sex.
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Infant mortality rate: The percentage of children who die
before their first birthday within a particular area or country.
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Child mortality rate: Number of deaths per thousand children
within the first five years of life.
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Life expectancy: A figure indicating how long, on average, a
person may be expected to live
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Endemic: Confined to a particular country or area
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Epidemic: A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.
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Pandemic: Worldwide epidemic