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12 Cards in this Set
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What does population depend on? |
Birth rate, death rate and migration |
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What is the annual growth rate or natural increase? |
The difference between birth rate and death rate |
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What does the demographic transition show? |
What happened to birth and death rates in MEDCs in the last 200 years |
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Why are birth rates falling in LEDCs? |
Family planning programmes and use of contraception
rather than as a result of economic development and better standards of living |
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Stage 1: |
Birth and death rates are very high so natural increase is very low giving only a small population growth or decrease or no change at all |
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Stage 2: |
Birth rates remain high but death rates begin to fall resulting in high natural increase |
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What are the reasons for high birth rate? |
Children are an economic benefit - industrial revolution Lack of knowledge of/and contraception Marry young Religious beliefs |
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What are the reasons for a declining death rate? |
Better food supplies Better medical knowledge Available vaccines Better sanitation and housing |
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Stage 3: |
Birth rates start to fall; death rates continue to fall but at a slower rate Population growth begins to slow |
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What are the reasons for declining birth rates? |
Availability of birth control Children become and economic burden Emancipation and education of women |
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Stage 4: |
Birth and death rates low so a very low natural increase |
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Stage 5: |
More people dying than being born resulting in the decline of the population |
