ECON 313 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Per Capita Income, Total Fertility Rate, Infant Mortality
3 May 2016
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6. 2 population growth: past, present, and future. Doubling time: period takes for a population to double in size. Pop growth by sharp decrease in death rates. > of world"s people live in developing countries. Death rate: # deaths each year per 1000 population. Total fertility rate (tfr): # children woman would birth if she lived to end of her child-bearing years and bore children in accordance w/prevailing age-specific fertility rates. Life expectancy at birth: # years a newborn child would live if subjected to mortality risks prevailing for the population at the time of the child"s birth. Under-5 mortality rate: deaths among children b/w 0-5 year of age per 1000 live births. Youth dependency ratio: proportion of youth (under 15) to working population (16-64) in a country younger population = higher ratio. Relatively young population in developing world working pop must support more children as it does in wealthier countries.
