What terms are used by demographers to analyze population dynamics? Present the terms, define them, and explain what they can tell us about a society.
What will be an ideal response?
- Fertility: the incidence of childbearing in a country's population, measured using the crude birth rate, the number of live births in a given year for every 1,000 people in a population.
- Mortality: the incidence of death in a country's population, measured using the crude death rate, the number of deaths in a given year for every 1,000 people in a population.
- Infant mortality rate: the number of babies, of every 1,000 born, who die before their first birthday.
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