AP Human Geography / Unit 2: Population and Migration Patterns and Processes
2.5 The Demographic Transition Model
Notes
Stages: 1. High CBR and CDR, low growth. 2. CDR falls (medicine, sanitation), rapid growth. 3. CBR falls (urbanization, women's education), slowing growth. 4. Low CBR and CDR. 5. (Possible) CBR below CDR, decline.
Practice
A country with falling birth rates as people move to cities is in stage:
Birth rates drop.
Rapid growth occurs in stage 2 because:
Gap between CBR and CDR.
Japan, with a shrinking population, may be in stage:
CBR below CDR.
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