Population Dynamics

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What is population in geography?
Population dynamics is the study of the fluctuations of a population's size over time, as observed through rates of birth, death, immigration, and emigration. Important characteristics of a population are size, density, dispersion, sex distribution and ag
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What is population distribution?
Population distribution is a measure of how spread out a population is in any given area. The simplest way to measure population distribution is to calculate the percentage of a population over a specific geographic area. For example, forty percent of the
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What is demographic transition?
Demographic transition is a long-term trend of declining birth and death rates, resulting in substantive change in the age distribution of a population.
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What is a demographic transition model?
The demographic transition model is a diagram that shows how the population of a country changes over time; it displays birth rates, death rates, natural increase, and total population levels. It can also symbolise the level of development within a countr
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What is a population pyramid?
The population pyramid represents the breakdown of the population by gender and age at a given point in time. It consists of two histograms, one for each gender (by convention, men on the left and women on the right) where the numbers are shown horizontal
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What is overpopulation?
Over-population is when there are too many people to be supported to a good standard of living by the resources of a region or country. Under-population is when a region or country has insufficient workers to exploit their resources efficiently, support r
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What is underpopulation?
Under-population is when a region or country has insufficient workers to exploit their resources efficiently, support retired populations and provide growth. i.e. too few people to use all the resources of an area to the maximum efficiency.
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Population distribution is a measure of how spread out a population is in any given area. The simplest way to measure population distribution is to calculate the percentage of a population over a specific geographic area. For example, forty percent of the

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The demographic transition model is a diagram that shows how the population of a country changes over time; it displays birth rates, death rates, natural increase, and total population levels. It can also symbolise the level of development within a countr

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The population pyramid represents the breakdown of the population by gender and age at a given point in time. It consists of two histograms, one for each gender (by convention, men on the left and women on the right) where the numbers are shown horizontal

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