Practice question · Sort into groups
Which force pushes births down during the transition, and which pushed deaths down first? Sort the drivers.
Groups: Lowered death rates · Lowered birth rates
- Access to contraception
- Vaccination campaigns
- Clean water and sewage systems
- Mass female education
- Urban living raising the cost of children
Hints
- One set of drivers is technical and public-health based.
- The other is social, and it acts decades later.
Show the answer
Lowered death rates: Clean water and sewage systems, Vaccination campaigns
Lowered birth rates: Mass female education, Urban living raising the cost of children, Access to contraception
Why
Deaths fall from public-health engineering; births fall from social change, which is why the two curves fall decades apart, and the gap between them is the population explosion.
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