Population Vocabulary

Total # of people an area can support

• Life Expectancy

• Carrying Capacity

• Elderly Support Ratio

• Human Development Index

Annual # of female deaths related to pregnancy

• Infant Mortality Rate

• Motherly Index Rate

• Maternal Mortality Rate

• Crude Death Rate

The average # of years someone can expect to live

• Infant Mortality Rate

• Human Development Index

• Doubling Time

• Life Expectancy

Total # of people per unit of farm land

• population density

• physiological density

• arithmetic density

• agricultural

Measures level of development depending on income, education and life expectancy

• Happy Planet Index

• Demographic Transition Model

• Human Development Index

• Natural Increase Rate

Measures sustainable well-being for all

• Human Development Index

• Ecumene

• Natural Increase Rate

• Happy Planet Index

Total # of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in a society

• Crude Death Rate

• Crude Birth Rate

• Doubling Time

• Life Expectancy

# of people under 15 and over 64 compared to the number of workers

• Elderly Support Ratio

• Natural Increase Rate

• Dependency Ratio

• Arithmetic Density

Population count every 10 years

• Census

• Ecumene

• Election

• Doubling Time

Parts of Earth's surface permanently settled by humans

• Census

• Country

• Ecumene

• Carrying Capacity