SOC 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kingsley Davis, Historical Demography, Marriage
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Demographic transition (dt) refers to thetransition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system. Stage2. this stage leads to a fall in death rates and an increase in population; stage3 moves the population towards stability through a decline in the birth rate. Stage4, this occurs where birth and death rates are both low, leading to a total population, which is high and stable. Stage5or six he original demographic transition model has just four stages, but additional stages have been proposed. Both more-fertile and less-fertile futures have been claimed as a. Criticism it has to be remembered that the dtm is only a model and cannot necessarily predict the future. It does however give an indication of what the future birth and death rates may be for an underdeveloped country, together with the total population size.
