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... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Population Dynamics > Population Growth
... > Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Population Dynamics > Population Growth
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Measurements > Demography > Population Dynamics > Population Growth
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Demography > Population Dynamics > Population Growth

Preferred term

Population Growth  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Baby Boom
  • Baby Booms
  • Baby Bust
  • Baby Busts
  • Explosion, Population
  • Explosions, Population
  • High Fertility Population
  • High Fertility Populations
  • Increase, Natural
  • Increases, Natural
  • Natural Increase
  • Natural Increases
  • Past Trend
  • Past Trends
  • Population Explosion
  • Population Explosions
  • Population Growth and Natural Resources
  • Population, High Fertility
  • Populations, High Fertility
  • Population Size and Growth
  • Trend, Past
  • Trends, Past
  • Zero Population Growth

Note

  • IM human, NIM animal

Scope note

  • Increase, over a specific period of time, in the number of individuals living in a country or region.

History note

  • 68; POPULATION EXPLOSION was see under POPULATION GROWTH 1968-78

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011158

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