AP European History

Unit 2 – POPULATION

Readings: Places & Regions in Global Context – Chapter 3

Demography

Census

Vital Records

Crude Density (Arithmetic Density)

Nutritional Density

Agricultural Density

Baby Boom

Geodemographic Analysis

Histogram

Age-Sex Pyramid

Cohort (Youth, Middle, & Old Age)

Dependency Ratio

Fertility

Mortality

Crude Birthrate (CBR)

Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

Doubling Time

Crude Death Rate (CDR)

Rate of Natural Increase/Decrease

Infant Mortality Rate

Life Expectancy

Demographic Transition Theory

Mobility

Migration

Emigration

Immigration

International & Internal Migration

Gross & Net Migration

Push & Pull Factors

Voluntary & Forced Migration

Suburbanization

Eco-migration

Thomas Malthus

Neomalthusians

1994 UN Conference on Population

1. Discuss the factors that determine the distribution and concentration of population in a country or region.

2. Discuss the factors that affect the crude birthrates and deathrates in a country or region.

3. Explain the demographic transition theory and discuss the current debate regarding its usefulness.
4. Discuss the most common means that family planning agencies and organizations have employed to control population growth.