GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Mortality Rate, Population Momentum
20 Oct 2017
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Crude death rate of infants less than one year of age. (infant mortality rate: crude birth rate: number of live births per 1000 people per year. Also known as natality: crude death rate: number of deaths per 1000 people per year. Crude death rate of children below the age of 5. (child mortality rate: fertility rate. Average number of births a woman has in her childbearing years: life expectancy. Average number of years of life remaining at a given age, usually measured at birth. now aged x. E being the average number of subsequent years of life for someone: population pyramids are important to show the structure of a population in terms of sex and age. They show trends in birth rate, death rate, and life expectancy. They can also project population momentum and show population projections: population momentum is the rate of the change of a population. They show how a population might look in the future.
