| Term | Definition |
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| Agricultural Density | The ratio of farmers to the total amount land suitable for agriculture |
| Agricultural Revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering |
| Census | A complete enumeration of a population |
| Crude Birth Rate | The total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society |
| Crude Death Rate | The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society |
| Demographhic Transition | The process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rates of natural increase, and higher total population |
| Demography | The scientific study of population characteristics |
| Dependency Ratio | The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force |
| Doubling Time | The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant of natural increase |
| Epidemiological Transition | Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition |
| Epiodemiology | Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that affect large numbers of people |
| Ecume | The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement |
| Industrial Revolution | A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods |
| Infant Mortality Rate | The total number of deaths in a year among infants under the age of one year old for every 1000 live births in a society |
| Life Expectancy | The average number of years an individual can be expected to live |
| Natural Increase Rate | The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate |
| Pandemic | Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population |
| Physiological Density | The number of people per unit of area of arable land |
| Population Pyramid | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex |
| Sex Ratio | The number of men for every 100 women in the population |
| Total Fertility Rate | The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years |
| Zero Population Growth | A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero |
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