Monday, February 10, 2014

Some Important Definitions of Population

Demography:  The scientific study of human populations, their characteristics, how these characteristics affect growth, and the consequences of that growth is known as demography.
Population: A population is group of individuals of the same species living in the same area or interbreeding and sharing genetic information.
Species: A species is all individuals that are capable of interbreeding and capable of producing fertile offspring. A species is made up of populations.
Population Dynamics: The general study of changes in population sizes and the causes of these changes.
Doubling Time: A concept used frequently in discussing human population growth, is the time required for a population to double in size. A useful role of thumb is that if you divide 70 by the annual percentage growth—that will give approximately doubling time for anything growing exponentially. If the growth rate of a human population of any country is 5% per year then its population will double in every 14 years.

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