Vocabulary
Methods used to reduce births
What is birth control?
The number of people populating the Earth as of 2016
What is 7.4 billion?
He believed "People are the ultimate resource."
Who is Simon?
Who is China?
The reasons females have a longer life expectancy than males.
What are lifestyle choices, such as drinking, smoking, etc.?
Number of deaths in a year per one thousand persons
What is crude death rate?
This bubonic plague decimated Europe during the 14th century.
What is the "Black Death"?
Who is Marx?
The low income demographic world is composed of countries primarily found in these areas.
What is Africa, Asia, and Central America?
The number of immigrants who legally travel to the US each year.
What is 800,000 people?
The average age that a newborn infant can expect to attain based on history
What is life expectancy?
Jeanne Louise Calmest of France is thought to be the oldest living being of the last century, living until this age.
What is 122?
Believed food supply will collapse leading to population decline
Who is Malthus?
The largest emitter of CO2 and a leader in the field of renewable energy.
What is China?
People who are forced from their homes by religious, political, or economic forces.
What are refugees?
What is social justice?
This disease is the number one cause of death for adolescents in Africa.
What is AIDS/HIV?
His theory states that the exploitation of workers ultimately leads to poverty.
Who is Marx?
This country has a declining work population due to supporting a larger number of retired persons.
What is the United States?
The average amount of children per family in today's society.
What is 2-3 children?
What is the demographic transition?
Demographers expect populations to grow to this number by the year 2050.
What is 9.7 billion?
Author of the essay "An Essay on the Principle of Population" written in 1798.
Who is Malthus?
The highest population growth rates come from these two areas of the world.
What is sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East?
The amount of people undernourished in the world according the FAO.
What is 795 million people?