population growth
Rising headcount trend
Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a given area over time.
It results from the balance between births, deaths, immigration, and emigration.
Rapid population growth strains resources; declining growth raises concerns about aging societies and labor shortages.
The region's population growth has slowed dramatically since the 1970s.
Sudden powerful increase
- increaseGrowth in amount
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- escalationProgressive increase in intensity
- spikeSharp rise or point
upsurge · ballooning · skyrocketing · exponential · swell · burgeoning · rapid · accelerating
Official population count
- birthrateNewborns per capita measure
- mortalityState of eventual death
- life expectancyAverage anticipated survival duration
- age distributionPopulation sorted by years
fertility rate · migration · immigration · emigration · cohort · vital statistics · median age · headcount
Unsustainable density of inhabitants
- densityMass-to-volume ratio
- congestionExcessive accumulation causing blockage
- overcrowdedFilled beyond capacity
- teemingAbundantly full of
packed · strain · pressure · resource depletion · carrying capacity · scarcity · competition · housing shortage
Controlling fertility deliberately
- contraceptionPregnancy prevention measures
- birth controlPreventing conception intentionally
- one-child policyMandated single-offspring limit
- pronatalismAdvocacy for higher birthrates
reproductive rights · incentives · subsidies · Malthusian · sterilization · quota · legislation · welfare
Urban area exceeding ten million
- metropolitanOf a major city
- sprawlExtend in disorderly fashion
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- housing demandDesire for residential units
city expansion · peri-urban · shantytown · urban density · satellite cities · conurbation · boomtown · urban planning
surge
Sudden powerful increase
- increaseGrowth in amount
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- escalationProgressive increase in intensity
spike · upsurge · ballooning · skyrocketing · exponential · swell · burgeoning · rapid · accelerating · doubling
census
Official population count
- birthrateNewborns per capita measure
- mortalityState of eventual death
- life expectancyAverage anticipated survival duration
age distribution · fertility rate · migration · immigration · emigration · cohort · vital statistics · median age · headcount
overpopulation
Unsustainable density of inhabitants
- densityMass-to-volume ratio
- congestionExcessive accumulation causing blockage
- overcrowdedFilled beyond capacity
teeming · packed · strain · pressure · resource depletion · carrying capacity · scarcity · competition · housing shortage · food insecurity
family planning
Controlling fertility deliberately
- contraceptionPregnancy prevention measures
- birth controlPreventing conception intentionally
- one-child policyMandated single-offspring limit
pronatalism · reproductive rights · incentives · subsidies · Malthusian · sterilization · quota · legislation · welfare · maternal health
megacity
Urban area exceeding ten million
- metropolitanOf a major city
- sprawlExtend in disorderly fashion
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
housing demand · city expansion · peri-urban · shantytown · urban density · satellite cities · conurbation · boomtown · urban planning · favela
- Types of Expansionurban sprawl, empire building, colonization, annexation, market expansion
- urban developmenturban development, sprawl, city planning, urban policy, zoning
- external forceseconomic factors, environmental factors, market forces, demographics, interest rates
- Hawaii demographicsNative Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, ethnic diversity, median age, multiracial
- historical forcescultural shifts, political change, social progress, economic development, technological change
- Historical Trendsurbanization, industrialization, globalization, migration, colonialism
population growthpopulation decline
Decreasing number of inhabitants
population decrease · depopulation · population loss · population collapse · population crash
growth, popular, population, populate, populated, populations, populating, repopulate, depopulate