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| census | A complete count of the population. |
| Dependency Ration | The number of people under 15 and over 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force. |
| Epidemiologic Transition | Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demobraphic transition. |
| Epidemiology | The branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases that affect large numbers of people. |
| Industrial revolution | A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods. |
| Medical Revolution | Medical technology invented in Europe and North america that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. |
| Pandemic | Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population. |
| Population Pyramid | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex. |
| Sex Ratio | The number of males per 100 females in the population. |
| Zero Population Growth | A decline in the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero. |
| Remittance | A transfer of money by a foreign worker to an individual in his or her own country. |
