Practice question · Multiple choice
In the demographic transition deaths fall before births do. Why does that ORDERING, rather than the fall itself, produce the population explosion?
Hints
- Draw the two rates as curves and shade the area between them.
- What are births doing while deaths are already falling?
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C. Because births continue at the old rate while more survive
Why
Stage 2 is a lag, not a level. Both rates end low, and the population is permanently larger because of what happened in between, which is why the transition is described as a sequence.
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