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 ...
Interval between marriage or sexual union and the first birth (first birth interval), or interval between two successive births in the current union.
It is a special case of a stable population.
A population with an invariable age structure and a fixed rate of natural increase. Any closed population without any migratory exchanges with the outside world, subjected to invariable fertility and mortality conditions over a long period tends towards a stable condition with an invariable age structure and rate of growth. A stationary population with a zero growth rate is a special ...
A government data collection system in which the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of all or part of the population are continuously recorded
