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== Demography/ demographics == | |||
* = study of human organizations and sub-categories for classification | |||
** including, age, employment, economics, ethnicity, location, race, religion, sex, social class, etc. | |||
=== Demographic transition === | |||
[[File:Demographic-TransitionOWID.png|thumb|Demographic transition overview, where "stage 5" is shown as unknown.]] | |||
==== Five stages of demographic transition ==== | |||
* theory of shifts in populations from high to low birth/death rates | |||
** driven by industrialization, globalism, and mechanized argriculture | |||
* these shifts happen in different places at different times | |||
* demographic analysis can be empowered by these categories | |||
** | |||
===== Stage 1 ===== | |||
** | |||
===== Stage 2 ===== | |||
===== Stage 3 ===== | |||
===== Stage 4 ===== | |||
===== Stage 5 ===== | |||
==== key terms ==== | |||
===== agriculture ===== | |||
* food supply | |||
* soil management | |||
* irrigation | |||
* crop yields | |||
* seeds/ seed technology | |||
* genetic manipulation | |||
* mechanized agriculture | |||
===== population ===== | |||
* birth/death rate | |||
** fertility rate | |||
** mortality rate | |||
* fertility factors | |||
* contraception | |||
* population momentum | |||
* baby boom | |||
* urbanization | |||
===== health conditions ===== | |||
* hygiene | |||
* vaccinations | |||
* public health | |||
* sewers/ sewage treatment | |||
* disease | |||
* health care | |||
===== age ===== | |||
** age stratification | |||
** dependency ratio | |||
** working age population | |||
* dependent window | |||
* demographic dividend | |||
* demographic trap | |||
[[Category:Geography]] | [[Category:Geography]] | ||