GEO 208 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Modifiable Areal Unit Problem, Population Reference Bureau, United States Census Bureau
30 Sep 2016
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Advances in medicine, sanitation, and nutrition have allowed the world"s population to grow at a faster rate. Most of that growth has occurred in the developing world. Infant mortality rate (imr): deaths to infants less than one year of age per one thousand births. War, refugee movements, and simple geographic interaction across space perpetuate poor health and disease. Illegal immigrants and refugees dominate the international movement of people. Refugees are persons who are outside their country of nationality and are unable to return owing to fear of persecution for reason of race, religion, nationality, or association in a social or political group. Population geography is the study of the human population with respect to size, composition, spatial distribution, and changes in the population that occur over time. Demography, with its roots in the analysis of mortality and fertility statistics, is the statistical analysis of population.
