The difference between the number of births and the umber of deaths.
What is the natural increase?
100
These are used to display trends using age and sex as key indicators.
What are population pyramids?
100
This practice is designed to favour one race over another.
What are Eugenic Population Policies?
100
At this stage populations have levelled out at a relatively high population due to stability in health and education.
What is stage 4 of the DTM?
200
Population in relation to arable land.
What is physiologic population density?
200
The number of births per year per thousand people in the population.
What is a Crude Birth Rate (CBR)?
200
The statistics recorded for deaths of people during their first year.
What is Infant Mortality Rate?
200
Nations reduce population growth with this practice.
What is a Restrictive Population Policy?
200
Remote first nations tribes may still exhibit this stage even though there are no countries that exist in it today.
What is Stage 1 of the DTM?
300
Descriptions of locations where individuals or groups live.
What are population distributions?
300
The number of deaths per year per 1000 people.
What is the Crude Death Rate (CDR)?
300
These are statistics associated with the death of people between the ages of 1 and 5.
What is Child Mortality Rate?
300
In the 1700's this thinker sounded alarm bells to nations about the immense increase in growing populations and the impact that might have.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
300
This potential stage indicates a shrinking population due to death rates that are lower than birth rates.
What is Stage 5 on the DTM?
400
Geographers use these to visualize population distributions.
What are dot maps?
400
This graph of the population cycle has four, possibly five stages.
What is the Demographic Transition Model?
400
This is a primary indicator of a societies well-being in terms of how long they can expect to live.
What is life expectancy?
400
This term is used to describe large coalescing super cities.
What is a Megalopolis?
400
During this stage a country has seen birth rates and death rates begin to even out but the population is sky-rocketing.
What is Stage 3 on the DTM?
500
These are executed in regular intervals to identify the total population in a country. It can be argued that these often overlook the disadvantaged groups in a society.
What is a census?
500
This country is often used to explain the DTM as it was the first to industrialize.
What is Great Britain / United Kingdom?
500
This "slim disease" as it is referred to, plays a dramatic role in the increasing death rates, particularly in Africa.
What is AIDS?
500
The spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination.
What is Expansive Population Practices?
500
The difference between high birth rates and lowering death rates begins the rapid population increase in this stage.