Practice question · Put in order
Put the stages of the demographic transition in order.
- Births begin to fall; growth decelerates
- Low births, low deaths, flat population at a far higher level
- High births, high deaths, flat population
- Deaths fall while births stay high, population explodes
Hints
- One rate falls before the other.
- The gap between them is where growth happens.
Show the answer
- High births, high deaths, flat population
- Deaths fall while births stay high, population explodes
- Births begin to fall; growth decelerates
- Low births, low deaths, flat population at a far higher level
Why
The order is the argument. Deaths fall first, always, and the interval before births follow is the entire population history of the modern world.
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