Geography : Unit 3 Population

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After our Geography exam we start a new one about the population in the countries. Is very interesting discover some factors like the birth rate or the general fertility rate. However , here is the new vocabulary

Development : How something is going on.

Droughts: An age were the is no rain.

Onwards: English expression that that means that after something another thing is going to happens

Unevenly: Not the same.

Famine: Starvation( Hungry, but it doesn't mean to Be hungry. Some people around the world can't eat any food for days , just because they are too poor and in their countries there isn't food)

Epidemic: When a virus expands and affect a lot of population.

As you know, the unit is about population,Here is a document about how to calculate the birth rate, death rate, etc, 


Here are some definition:


Birth rate:Total number of births divided per the total population per 1000

Death rate: The total numbers of deaths divided all the population per 1000  

Natural increase : The birth rate minus the death rate

Infant mortality rate: refers to deaths of young children (less than one year old)

life expentansy Statical measure of the average time a person is expected ti life

birth control allow us to prevent pregnancy 

dependent population group of people who of the reference date where in a situation

dependency ratio :Show the number of dependence people aged zero to 14 and over age of 65.

family planning controlling the number of children a family and the period of time before a son and another

population pyramids/ age-gender structures graphical illustration that shows the distributions of various aged group in a population which the forms which forms the shape population pyramids

replacement rate percentage of workers  pre-retirement

fertility rate is the number of live births divided the numbers of women ages 15-49

ageing population when the median age of a country increases the life expenstansy and declining the fertility rate 

population distribution measure of population density  

 population density the arrangement of people living in given areas 

a more economically developed country(MEDC)

Less economically developed country (LEDC)