Ecumene
Number of people living in an area per a unit of measurement.
Arithmetic density
Physiological density
The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture.
Agricultural density
Carrying capacity
Sustainability
providing the best outcomes for human and natural environments both in the present and for the future
Distribution
Exponential growth
Doubling time
The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase.
a sudden increase or burst in the population in either a certain geographical area or worldwide
Population pyramid
Cohort
Demography
Natural increase
Mortality
Natural Increase Rate
Maternal mortality rate
Dependency ratio
Demographic equation
The formula that calculates population change. The formula finds the increase (or decrease) in a population. The formula is found by doing births minus deaths plus (or minus) net migration. This is important because it helps to determine which stage in th
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 rate of natural increase, and a higher total population.
Demographic momentum
Overpopulation
Underpopulation
Thomas Malthus
Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because, in his view, population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.
Ester Boserup
A belief that the world is characterized by scarcity and competition in which too many people fight for too few resources. Named for Thomas Malthus, who predicted a dismal cycle of misery, vice, and starvation as a result of human overpopulation
Immigration
Emigration
Laws of migration
Gravity Model
Push factors
Pull factors
Chain Migration
migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
the presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away
Forced Migration
transhumance
Migratory
Refugees
internal refugees
international refugees
Baby Boom
Baby Bust
Generation X
Generation Y
Census tract
a division of human geography concerned with spatial variations in distribution, composition, growth, and movements of population.
Rust Belt
Sun Belt
J curve