Practice question · Put in order
Order the demographic transition’s stages by what falls when.
- Education and urban life pull the birth rate down
- High births and high deaths hold population flat
- Both rates low: growth stalls and the society ages
- The gap between the rates explodes the population
- Sanitation and vaccines pull the death rate down
Hints
- One rate falls well before the other.
- Everything dramatic happens in the gap between them.
Show the answer
- High births and high deaths hold population flat
- Sanitation and vaccines pull the death rate down
- The gap between the rates explodes the population
- Education and urban life pull the birth rate down
- Both rates low: growth stalls and the society ages
Why
Deaths fall first, births fall late, and everything dramatic in modern demography happens in the lag between them.
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