Key Terms

absolute population density

carrying capacity

crude birthrate

crude death rate

demographic transition

dependency ratio

depopulation

farm village

farmstead

forced migrant

formal demographic region

gender role

geodemography

infant mortality rate

Malthusian

medical geography

natural decrease

personal space

physiological population density

population density

population doubling time

population explosion

population geography

population growth rate

population pyramid

push-and-pull factors

refugee

sex ratio

shantytown

total fertility rate (TFR)

voluntary migrant

zero population growth