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  2. Population momentum - Wikipedia

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    Population momentum is a consequence of the demographic transition.Population momentum explains why a population will continue to grow even if the fertility rate declines. . Population momentum occurs because it is not only the number of children per woman that determine population growth, but also the number of women in reproductive

  3. Demographic transition - Wikipedia

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    In demography, demographic transition is a phenomenon and theory which refers to the historical shift from high birth rates and high death rates to low birth rates and low death rates, as societies attain more technology, education (especially of women) and economic development. [1] The demographic transition has occurred in most of the world ...

  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') [1] is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the ...

  5. Not only a matter of education - HuffPost

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    Over the last ten years, the Hispanic population accounted for 56 percent of the nation’s growth rate—an increase of 15.2 million out of a total of 27 million (PEW HISPANIC CENTER: 2011). Moreover, “between 1980 and 2000, the increase of 20.7 million in the Hispanic population accounted for 38 percent of the nation’s total population ...

  6. Human population planning - Wikipedia

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    Human population planning is the practice of managing the growth rate of a human population. The practice, traditionally referred to as population control, had historically been implemented mainly with the goal of increasing population growth, though from the 1950s to the 1980s, concerns about overpopulation and its effects on poverty, the ...

  7. Educational attainment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the general population the proportion of persons with a bachelor's degree or higher was the same among the foreign-born and native-born population (27.2%). As stated above fewer foreign born Americans completed high school than native born Americans. Overall, 87.5% of the native born population had graduated from high school, versus 67.2%.

  8. Method of moments (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Method of moments (statistics) In statistics, the method of moments is a method of estimation of population parameters. The same principle is used to derive higher moments like skewness and kurtosis. It starts by expressing the population moments (i.e., the expected values of powers of the random variable under consideration) as functions of ...

  9. Population growth - Wikipedia

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    Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group. Actual global human population growth amounts to around 83 million annually, or 1.1% per year. [2] The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to 8.1 billion in 2024. [3] The UN projected population to keep growing, and estimates have put ...