GEOG 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Infant Mortality, Demographic Transition, Addiction
13 Aug 2020
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Crude death rates cdr also play large role in population growth. Cdr is the ratio of the number of deaths in one year to every thousand people in. Usually associated with economic development but also other factors also the population contribute. Cdr measured for multiple cohorts but most common measure is the infant mortality rate. Reflects number of deaths per infant <1 year old. Good measure of a country"s access to health care and quality of lie. Not uniform by race (mush higher for ethnic minorities. Us infant mortality higher than it should be (ranked 56th worldwide) due to: Inadequate pre- and post-natal care for poor. Down worldwide but still much higher in non-core countries. Difference between cbr and cdr is the rate of natural increase (the surplus of births over death0 or the rate of natural decrease (the deficit of births relative to deaths) Life expectancy the average number of years a newborn can expect to live varies globally.
