Cohorts
Population Pyramids
Key Terms
Impact of the Boomers
World Population Trends
100
This large cohort was born between 1946-1966.
What are the Baby Boomers?
100
This type of population pyramid is even throughout.
What is a Stable pyramid?
100
The ability to reproduce.
What is fecundity?
100
Theoretically, there should be plenty of these available for your generation as the Boomers retire.
What are jobs?
100
The current estimate of the world's population.
What is 7 Billion?
200
The children of the Boomers, born between 1980-1995.
What is the Echo Boom?
200
An expansive population pyramid has a broad base, meaning that the country has a lot of _________.
What are children?
200
The terms used to refer to a population age group.
What is cohort?
200
Their retirement could drain this, meaning higher contributions for the rest of us throughout our lives.
What is the Canadian Pension Plan?
200
What the industrialized, wealthy countries of the world are referred to as.
What are developed nations?
300
The newest and youngest Canadian cohort.
What is Generation Z?
300
A population pyramid that has a narrow top and a narrow bottom is called a:
What is a Stationary pyramid?
300
Births - Deaths =
What is natural increase?
300
Fewer Boomers working because of retirement + fewer young people working because of declining birth rates= higher _____________.
What are taxes?
300
This is the percentage of the world's population growth that is happening in the developing world.
What is 95%?
400
The cohort born after the boomers that is small because of women working and taking the pill.
What is the Baby Bust?
400
The type of pyramid that we see happening in Canada, with a narrow base and a high percentage of older people.
What is a Declining pyramid?
400
The number of births required to maintain a stable population.
What is replacement level?
400
The physical, emotional, and financial stress of taking care of the aging boomers.
What is caregiver burden?
400
A main reason why Canadian women are having fewer children.
What is delayed parenthood, or focus on careers, or use of contraceptives, or infertility due to STIs like chlamydia.
500
The second cohort of a larger one, they were born between 1960-1966.
What is Generation X?
500
This is why population pyramids are useful and why we learn about them.
What is to predict population trends and plan for social programs and government spending?
500
A comparison of the number of dependents for every 100 adults of working age.
What is dependency ratio?
500
This was and is a result of money borrowed to educate the young Baby Boomers.
What is national debt?
500
A main reason why Canadian men are having fewer children.
What is lower sperm counts due to estrogen in the water, or money, or delayed parenthood, etc.
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