| TERM/PHRASE | CLASSIFICATION | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boom | is a dramatic increase in fertility rates and in absolute number of births | which occurred between 1947 and 1961, particularly in North America, Australia, and New Zealand |
| Biculturalism | is a government policy | which supports the existence of two distinct cultures |
| Bilingualism | is a government policy | which supports having two languages with equal status |
| Birth Rate | is a rate | which is determined by dividing the number of births in one year by the number of people alive in the middle of the year, and multiplying that number by 1 000 |
| Child Mortality Rate | is a death rate | which refers to infants between the ages of one and five years per thousand children |
| Cultural Group | is a group of people | who share the same beliefs, traditions, attitudes, arts, and so on |
| Cultural Imprint | is an effect on the environment | which is caused by a cultural factor, either physical or social |
| Culture | is a general term | which refers to the beliefs, traditions, attitudes, and way of life shared by a people |
| Death Rate | is a rate | which is determined by dividing the number of deaths in one year by the number of people alive in the middle of the year, and multiplying that number by 1 000 |
| Demography | is a scientific study | which focuses on human populations, including their size, composition, distribution, density, growth, and other demographic and socioeconomic characteristics |
| Dependency Load | is a value | which generally refers to the portion of the population who are below sixteen years of age and over sixty-five |
| Doubling Rate | is a value | which refers to the number of years required for a population of an area to double its present size |
| Emigration | is a process | which focuses on the movement from one country to another to live |
| Ethnic Group | is a group of people | who share the same characteristics, customs, and language |
| Expansive Age-Sex Structure | is a condition | in which a country has a young population with a high potential for growth |
| Exponential Growth | is a mathematical term | which, when applied to population, refers to a constant rate of growth applied to a continuously growing base over a period of time |
| Fecundity | is a physiological term | which refers to the capacity of a person to produce a live child |
| Fertility Rate | is a rate | which refers to the number of births per year per 1 000 women between the ages of 15 and 45 |
| First Generation | is an immigrant | who becomes a citizen of the adopted country |
| First Language | is a type of language | which is first understood as a child |
| Homo Sapiens | is an anthropology term | which refers to the only representative of Homo , the genus of primates that includes humans, that remains today |
| Human Resources | is an economic term | which refers to people, in particular the skills and abilities they have |
| Immigration | is a process | which focuses on the movement from one country into another to live |
| Infant Mortality Rate | is a death rate | which refers to infants under the age of one in a given year per thousand live births in that year |
| Inuit | is a native term | which refers to the native people who are geographically located in the Arctic regions, and means 'the people' |
| Life Expectancy | is a demographic term | which refers to the number of years a person is expected to live, measured from birth |
| Metis | is a general term | which refers to people descended from North American Indians and Europeans |
| Momentum of Growth | is a growth in population | which continues even though the rate of growth is declining , usually because of the structural characteristics of a population |
| Morbidity | is a value | which expresses the frequency of disease and illness in a population |
| Multiculturalism | is a government policy | which promotes the existence of a number of distinct cultural groups |
| Natural Increase | is a population growth rate | which refers to the difference between the birth rate and the death rate |
| Net Migration | is a value | which refers to the difference between emigration and immigration |
| Population Density | is a value | which indicates the number of people living in a given area of land |
| Population Distribution | is a spacial term | which describes the arrangement or spread of the population over an area |
| Primary Language | is a type of language | which is the most common in a community |
| Population Projection | is a value | which is based on a computation of future changes in population numbers, given certain assumptions about future trends in the rates of fertility, mortality, and migration |
| Refugee | is a person | who has fled his/her country because of a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group, and who cannot or do not want to return |
| Replacement Level Fertility | is a level of fertility | at which couples are having only enough children to 'replace' themselves in the population. This is indicated by the total fertility rate |
| Rule of 70 | is a technique | which is used to estimate the effects of exponential growth by dividing 70 by the percent rate of growth. The result is the number of years this population would take to double if the rate persisted |
| Zero Population Growth | is a population in equilibrium | which has a growth rate of zero achieved when births plus immigration equal deaths plus emigration |