Practice question · True or false
Rapid population growth in a developing region reflects a durable cultural trait.
Hints
- The pattern is a stage, and stages end.
- Europe produced identical alarms during its own transition.
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False
Why
It is stage 2, and stage 2 ends. Europe produced identical alarms during its own nineteenth-century explosion; Iran then ran the fastest fertility decline in recorded history. A transition is not a trait.
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