| Definitions | Policies and Ratios | The Epidemiologic transition | Healthcare | Density |
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What is Demography?
The scientific study of population characteristics
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What is the elderly support ratio?
The number of working-age people
(ages 15 to 64) divided by the number of persons 65 and older |
What is Stage 1 of the Epidemiologic transition?
Pestilence and Famine
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Health conditions vary dramatically between what?
Developed nations and undeveloped nations
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What is Density?
Density is the number of things
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What is Carrying Capacity?
The maximum population size of a species that
the environment can sustain indefinitely |
What is a Population Pyramid?
A bar graph that displays the percentage of a
place’s population for each age and gender |
What is Stage 2 of The Epidemiologic transition?
Receding Pandemics
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What is Natural Increase Rate? (NIR)
The percentage by which a
population grows in a year |
What is Agricultural density?
Farmers/arable land
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What is Overpopulation?
The number of people exceeds the
capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living |
What is the Dependency Ratio?
The number of people who are too young or too
old to work compared to the number of people in their productive years |
What is Stage 3 of the Epidemiologic transition?
Degenerative Diseases
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How much do developed nations spend on healthcare annually?
>$1,000
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What is Arithmetic density?
People/land area
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What is doubling time?
The number of years needed to double a population
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What is a pronatalist policy?
a government policy that supports higher birth
rates |
What is Stage 4 of the Epidemiologic transition?
Delayed Degenerative and Lifestyle Diseases
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How much do undeveloped nations spend on healthcare annually?
<$100
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What is Physiological density?
People/arable land
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What are the four population clusters?
East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and Southeast Asia
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What is a antinatalist policy?
a government policy that supports lower
birth rates |
What is the Epidemiologic transition?
It focuses on distinctive health threats in
each stage of the demographic transition |
What is the NIR currently at?
1.2
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What are the three measures of population density used by geographers?
Arithmetic density, Physiological density, and Agricultural density
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