Consider the following specific stages of demographic transition associated with economic development:

1. Low birth rate with low death rate

2. High birth rate with high death rate

3. High birth rate with a low death rate

 Select the correct order of the above stages using the codes given below:    

The correct answer is 2, 3, 1.

Key Points

Theory of Demographic transition-

• It suggests that population growth is linked to overall levels of economic development and that every society follows a typical pattern of development-related population growth.
• There are three basic phases of population growth.
  • The first stage is that of low population growth in a society that is underdeveloped and technologically backward. Growth rates are low because both the death rate and the birth rate are very high so that the difference between the two (or the net growth rate) is low.
  • Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model (DTM) is characterized by a rapid decrease in a country's death rate while the birth rate remains high.
  • The third (and last) stage is also one of low growth in a developed society where both the death rate and birth rate have been reduced considerably and the difference between them is again small.

Additional Information

‘population explosion’ happens because death rates are brought down relatively quickly through advanced methods of disease control, public health, and better nutrition.