Filial relation
Line of kinship uniting a child with its father and its mother.
Line of kinship uniting a child with its father and its mother.
The incidence of disease, injury or disability in a population.
A marriage in which a person of one sex has more than one spouse of the opposite sex.Polyandry occurs when a woman has more than one husband, and polygyny when a man has several wives. Polygamy contrasts with monogamy. When a person has two spouses the term bigamy is used.
Future population assessed as a function of hypotheses on variations in fertility, mortality, and migration.Demographers often issue low, medium, and high projections of the same population, based on different assumptions of how these rates will change in the future.
A tabular display of life expectancy and the probability of dying at each age (or age group) for a given population, according to the age-specific death rates prevailing at that time. The life table gives an organized, complete picture of a population’s mortality.
Detailed description of known diseases and injuries.The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) is published and revised by the World Health Organization and is used world-wide for morbidity and mortality statistics, reimbursement systems and automated decision support in medicine. Every disease (or group of related diseases) is described with its diagnosis and given a unique code, ...
The state of population decline.
Person whose declared nationality is different from that of the country where he/she resides.
Expression used to describe the worldwide trend of rapid population growth in the 20th century. This explosion is the result of a world birth rate which is much higher than the world death rate.
The human development index (HDI) is a composite index that measures the development of a country. The HDI is based on qualitative and quantitative data: - life expectancy at birth (which gives an idea of the health status of the population); - the level of education measured by mean years of schooling and adult literacy rate; - the GDP per capita ...