Question

Demographic transition is the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system. A demographic transition involves four stages. What is the first stage?

Answer 1

low population growth, high birth rate, high death rate. this was because the industrial revolution hasn’t happened yet, food supplies were unpredictable, and the agriculture revolution did add to world population but didn’t pull the world out of the first stage. the world was in this stage for the first 200,000 years.

Answer 2

Birth rates fall due the increase in the status and education of women, according to USA test prep.