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  2. Mortality rate - Wikipedia

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    Mortality rate of countries, deaths per thousand. Mortality rate, or death rate, [1] : 189, 69 is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 1,000 individuals per year ...

  3. Health geography - Wikipedia

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    Health geography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care. Medical geography, a sub-discipline of, or sister field of health geography, [1] focuses on understanding spatial patterns of health and disease in relation to the natural and social environment.

  4. Demography - Wikipedia

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    The Demography of the World Population from 1950 to 2100. Data source: United Nations — World Population Prospects 2017. Demography (from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos) 'people, society', and -γραφία (-graphía) 'writing, drawing, description') is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay ...

  5. List of countries by rate of natural increase - Wikipedia

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    The rate of natural increase (RNI) is defined as the birth rate minus the death rate. It is typically expressed either as a number per 1,000 individuals in the population or as a percentage. RNI can be either positive or negative. It contrasts to total population change by ignoring net migration. Countries and subnational areas

  6. Population momentum - Wikipedia

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    Population momentum impacts the immediate birth and death rates in the population that determine the natural rate of growth. However, for a population to have an absolute zero amount of natural growth, three things must occur. 1. Fertility rates must level off to the replacement rate (the net reproduction rate should be 1). If the fertility ...

  7. Epidemiological transition - Wikipedia

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    Epidemiological transition. Diagram showing sharp birth rate and death rate decreases between Time 1 and Time 4, the congruent increase in population caused by delayed birth rate decreases, and the subsequent re-leveling of population growth by Time 5. In demography and medical geography, epidemiological transition is a theory which "describes ...

  8. Carrying capacity - Wikipedia

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    r is the intrinsic growth rate; K is the carrying capacity of the local environment, and; dN/dt, the derivative of N with respect to time t, is the rate of change in population with time. Thus, the equation relates the growth rate of the population N to the current population size, incorporating the effect of the two constant parameters r and K ...

  9. Birth rate - Wikipedia

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    Birth rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in years. [1] The number of live births is normally taken from a universal registration system for births; population counts from a census, and estimation through specialized demographic ...