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Encyclopedia: Population growth

Population growth is change in population over time, and can be quantified as the change in the number of individuals in a population per unit time. The term population growth can technically refer to any species, but almost always refers to humans, and it is often used informally for the more specific demographic term population growth rate (see below), and is often used to refer specifically to the growth of the population of the world.

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How to say "Population growth" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	人口自然增长率
	(German)	Bevölkerungswachstum
	(French)	Accroissement démographique

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Biotic

populations are disease, parisitism, and predation. The overabundance of predators and lack of sufficient amounts of prey both are factors that hinder population growth. Reduction in or absence of these factors can lead to population growth. See also: Abiotic factors...

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Demographics of the Vatican City

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Differential equations from outside physics

Most applications of differential equations occur in mathematical models in the physical sciences. However, some occur in biology, economics and other disciplines. Biology Verhulst equation - biological population growth Volterra-Lotka equations - biological population dynamics See also...

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Dr Challoner's High School

Dr Challoner's High School is a school in Buckinghamshire, England, for children between the ages of 11 and 18. It was founded in 1962 in Little Chalfont as an all-girls grammar school, having split from Dr Challoner's Grammar School due to rapid population growth in the area...

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Filipino Canadians

to Canada's more liberal immigration laws to compensate for their low population growth...

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Population statistics

change shows that population growth has slowed, infant mortality rates have declined and there have been... Population statistics is the use of statistics to analyze characteristics or changes to a population. It is related to social demography and demography. Population statistics can analyze anything...

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Rockefeller Commission

Rockefeller Commission can refer to either of two commissions in the US Congress, although it is not the proper name of either: The 1972 President's Commission on Population Growth and the American Future , headed by John D. Rockefeller 3rd. It was created by act of Congress, which was signed...

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Logistic function

biology to economics. For example, a common model of population growth states that: the rate of... models the competition for available resources, which tends to limit the population growth. Letting P... describe the self-limiting growth of a biological population. The equation is also sometimes called...

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Overpopulation

1970s. The optimist's viewpoint on population growth Other studies have countered with the claim... up with population growth indefinitely. The assumptions that underlie these claims, however, have... population growth The world's current agricultural production, if it were distributed evenly, would be...

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Dismal Science

The dismal science is another, often derogatory, name for economics. It is generally thought that economics got the nickname 'dismal science' as a response to economist Thomas Malthus's grim predictions that starvation would result as projected population growth exceeded the rate of increase in...

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