GEOGRAPHY: VOCABULARY UNIT 3

KEY WORDS AND TERMS

Population: is a group of people who live in a territory or a place at a particular moment in time.

birth rate: number of births that take place in a population over a year per 1000 inhabitants that occur during a year in a particular place.

death rate: number of deaths that take place in a population over a year per 1000 inhabitants that occur during a year in a particular place.

natural increase: is the difference between births and deaths, and it is expressed as a percentage. This percentage shows if a population is growing, stable or decreasing in size, as well as the rate at which it does so.

infant mortality rate: Is the number of deaths of infants under 1 year

life expectancy: describes how long a person may live in years. It’s an indicator of a country’s quality of life and, as with many other indicators, there are great differences between the situations in different countries.

dependency ratio: it´s a age-population ratio ofthose typically not in the labor force

family planning: people who decide to have a x number of children.

population piramids/age-gender structures: is one way to look at the demographics of a country. Demographics are population characteristics, such as age, gender, race, religion, or language. A population pyramid looks at only age and gender. It is constructed to show how many people in a particular age group are male of female. This is done using a horizontal bar graph. The result is a clear picture of how a country's population breaks down according to gender and age, and where the most people occur according to those two pieces of information.

fertility rate: Is the number of live births by the number of women ages 15-49 in a given year per 1000.

ageing population: the percentage of a worker's retirement income that is paid out by a pension program.

population distribution and population density:the world’s population is distributed very unevenly across the globe. There are certain regions which are truly barren and others which are extremely populated and which have very densely populated areas.

MEDC:more economically developed country (rich countries)

 LEDC:less economically developed country (poor countries)