SOCI 121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Least Developed Countries, Gross National Income, Doubling Time
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Key terms:9: more developed region (mdr): includes all countries of europe, northern america (us, canada, bermuda, greenland, and saint pierre and miquelon), australia, new. Zealand, and japan: less developed region (ldr): includes all other countries in the world, population growth rate: the number per 1,000 population by which a population grows in a year. If p1 is the population at the beginning of the year and p2 is the population at the end of the year, it can be calculated as 1000 x (p1 p2) / (midyear population). Since population grows exponentially, it can be calculated as 1000 x (ln(p2/p1). Can be calculated by dividing the population growth rate into the natural logarithm of 2, which is. 0. 693: population halving time: number of years it would take for size of population to be reduces to one-half its size if the growth rate at given point in time is negative and persisted indefinitely.
