Fertility INDICATORS Crude Birth Rate (CBR) Definition: number of live births per 100 people per year Strength: Quick and easy way of measuring and comparing fertility between different countries. Data required is usually readily available. Limitation: Does not take into account sex composition and age structure of the population Age-Specific Fertility Rate (ASFR) Definition: annual number of live births per 1‚000 women in particular age groups (usually in 5-year bands: 15-19
Free Demography Population Mortality rate
Essay #1: Empires/Civilizations-“Golden Age” Rome( Republic: the new form of government the Romans made where the people chose officials. Senate: the most powerful governing body in the republic. Patricians: upper class. (The senate was mostly made up of them) Plebeians: farmers‚ workers‚ artisans‚ and traders. Made up most of the population. Had little power (lower class.) [Later on in the empire‚ they gained more power and were allowed t elect their own officials and serve in government
Premium World War II World War I
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN CENTRE FOR FOUNDATION STUDIES INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA AED 1313 INTRODUCTION TO BUILT ENVIRONMENT SEMESTER I 2013/2014 CONTENT TITLE PAGE Background and Design Component of Taman Wetland Putrajaya Definition of wetland and their roles. Services provided by wetland ecosystems Biotic and Abiotic factors Roles of Producer‚ Herbivore‚ Carnivore‚ Omnivore‚ Scavenger‚ Parasite and Decomposer Predator-prey
Premium Wetland Water Water pollution
Finland Research Paper Zane Lyle Geography Finland is a Nordic country in the northern part of Europe. It is one of the world’s northernmost countries‚ Finland capital (Helsinki) has the second highest latitude among capitals in the world. Finland has the most lakes out of all the countries in Europe with about 188‚000 lakes over .12 acres. Finland has 789 islands. There is 1‚250 km of coastline in Finland. The capital of Finland (Helsinki) has a long history behind it and was actually founded
Premium Finland
MODULE 10: CULTURE & RELIGION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE INTRODUCTION Culture shapes the way we see the world. It therefore has the capacity to bring about the change of attitudes needed to ensure peace and sustainable development which‚ we know‚ form the only possible way forward for life on planet Earth. Today‚ that goal is still a long way off. A global crisis faces humanity at the dawn of the 21st century‚ marked by increasing poverty in our asymmetrical world‚ environmental degradation
Premium Culture Sustainability Sustainable development
Mongolia Mongolia (Mongolian: Монгол улс (help·info)) is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia‚ China to the south‚ east and west. Ulan Bator‚ the capital and largest city‚ is home to about 45% of the population. Mongolia’s political system is a parliamentary republic. The area of what is now Mongolia has been ruled by various nomadic empires‚ including the Xiongnu‚ the Xianbei‚ the Rouran‚ the Gökturks and others
Premium Mongolia
Echinoderm Echinoderm diversity Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Subkingdom: Eumetazoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Klein‚ 1734 Subphyla & Classes Homalozoa † Gill & Caster‚ 1960 Homostelea † Homoiostelea † Stylophora † Ctenocystoidea † Robison & Sprinkle‚ 1969 Crinozoa Crinoidea Paracrinoidea † Regnéll‚ 1945 Cystoidea † von Buch‚ 1846 Asterozoa Ophiuroidea Asteroidea Echinozoa Echinoidea Holothuroidea Ophiocistioidea † Helicoplacoidea †
Premium Animal
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION According to the World Bank reports about 1.1 billion people live in extreme poverty for less than US$ 1. The extreme poverty being in the developing countries of which 9% are from East Asia and the Pacific and 41% are from Sub-Saharan Africa. Tanzania remains one of the 10 poorest countries in the world. Poverty remains widespread and deep‚ with half of Tanzanians living under conditions of deprivation‚ concentrated in the rural areas. Commercial Banks contribute
Premium Poverty
Chapter 5 REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. How did the described volcanoes in Iceland and the Philippines change the environment to lesser or greater extents? 2. Name and describe the attributes of the two categories into which all organisms can be divided based on how they obtain nutrition. All organisms can be divided into autothrops‚ which produce their own food‚ and heterothrops‚ which need to get their food from somewhere else. 3. Name and describe the roles of the three main trophic categories that make
Premium Population growth World population Demography
Sri Lanka Country Office 146‚ Reid Avenue Bambalapitiya Colombo 4 Tel: +94 11 2502743 Fax: +94 11 4512976 colombo@acted.org Headquarters 33‚ rue Godot de Mauroy 75009 Paris France Tel: +33 1 42653333 paris@acted.org www.acted.org Sri Lanka Country Strategy Paper 2011 - 2013 Foreword by the ACTED Sri Lanka Country Director alleviating potential sources of conflict resulting from socio-economic inequalities. In parallel‚ we will support community-driven development management as a way to ensure
Premium Poverty Sri Lanka Local government