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Flashcards by Alastair Giddings, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alastair Giddings
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| Question | Answer |
| In Afghanistan the birth rate is high and the death rate is decreasing; women do not work, and tend to start their families at a very young age. Life expectancy would be about 45. Most people are subsistence farmers with no family planning. | Outline why Stage 2 has rapid population growth . |
| An urbanising society, with people moving into cities to work in factories; Brazil; women start working; family planning starts; living conditions and access to medicines improve. Life expectancy now up into the 60s. | Explain why Stage 3 has decreasing birth rates which are getter closer to the death rates. |
| An industrialised, wealthy society; the U.K.; women go to university & have careers so they're starting their families later in life; high standards of living; life expectancy is well into the 70s/early 80s. | In stage 4, why is population growth now reduced to periods of nil growth or very low growth? |
| A post-industrial society; Germany; women make a lifestyle choice to only have one child (or none); an ageing population with very high life expectancy. The death rate is higher than the birth rate. | In stage 5 there is a natural decrease. Why? |
| Match a population pyramid to each stage of the DTM. |
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