Vocabulary
The study of human population statistics.
What is Demography?
This major historical event triggered the most rapid increase in the global human population.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The stage of the demographic transition characterized by high birth rates and high death rates.
What is the Pre-industrial stage?
According to the video, South Korea's fertility rate has fallen to approximately this range.
What is 0.6 to 0.8?
This tool is used by demographers to show the relative numbers of each age group in a population.
What is an age structure diagram?
The average number of children a female member of a population has during her lifetime.
What is fertility rate?
This scientific development during the Industrial Revolution helped decrease the spread of disease.
What is Germ theory?
In this stage, death rates fall rapidly while birth rates remain high, leading to huge population growth
What is the Transitional stage?
This term describes the rapid aging of the population where there are too many elderly for the young to support.
What is the Silver Tsunami?
A "top-heavy" age structure diagram indicates that the population is likely to do this.
What is Shrink?
The birth rate at which a nation's population size remains stable.
What is Replacement fertility?
Approximately how many people are currently on Earth as of 2020?
What is 7-8 billion?
In this stage, birth rates begin to fall and close the gap with death rates.
What is the Industrial stage?
This is the main economic concern for South Korea regarding its shrinking population.
What is a shrinking workforce?
This is the number of people per unit area.
What is Population density?
The average number of years an individual is expected to live.
What is Life expectancy?
This country implemented a strict "one-child" policy to control its population growth.
What is China?
This final stage is characterized by both low birth rates and low death rates.
What is the Post-industrial stage?
One social factor mentioned that contributes to low birth rates in South Korea.
What is the high cost of raising children (or career pressure)?
This describes how the education of women typically affects a region's fertility rate.
What is it causes fertility rates to decrease?
A model that explains the change from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates.
What is Demographic transition?
These are the two primary factors that add individuals to a global population.
What are Births and Immigration?
This falls in the transition model: the birth rate or the death rate?
What is the Death rate?
This is what happens to the population size when the fertility rate is consistently below 2.1.
What is it decreases (or shrinks)?
These are "pull factors" that attract people to move into a new area.
What are better job opportunities and healthcare?