Question 1.
Under demographic transition theory, countries transition from high death and high birth rates to low death and low birth rates, as the country’s economy develops. The transition of death and birth rates is divided into four stages:
Pre-Industrial Stage
Societies have high death and birth rates in the first stage of pre-industrial stage. As both death and birth rates are high, population growth is slow and majority of the population is young as despite several births, few manage to live for long. In the pre-industrial society, children tend to operate as an economic benefit for the families, which reinforces the ...
