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** connections & intersections
** connections & intersections


== 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
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===== Stage 1 =====
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===== 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




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