Chapter 2 Quiz Continued Flashcards
Stage 1
Low growth very high birth and death rates
Stage 2
High growth rapid declining death and high birth
1750 industrial rev., war
20th century medical revolution
Stage 3
Decreasing growth birth rates decline death continues to decline
NIR moderate
People have less babies
More people work in cities less needed on farms
Stage 4
Low growth very low birth and death rates produce no growth
Death Equals birth
Zero population growth
When country reaches stage 4
Why low growth in stage 4
Women enter workforce and die before reaching childbearing years
Birth control
Denmark
Not pyramid has column demonstrating percentage of young and old is the same
Two strategies for declining birth rates
Health care and education… Contraceptives
Population increases and food increases
Geometrically arithmetically
Neo malthusians
Failed to anticipate poor countries population growth increased the fastest with medical technology
Population outstripping food water energy
Malthus critics
Very pessimistic about food supply, sees resources fixed not expanding
Pop. Growth could stimulate and increase in food supply, more demand for food and more jobs
Marxists say there is no relationship between
Pop. Growth and economic development
Unjust social classes causes prob. With food supply not population
Malthus expected pop. To
Quadruple
Two demographic differences underline cycle
Total pop. Much higher in stage for than 1
Birth and death are high at beginning and lower at end
Possible stage five
Drop in death from tech.
Drop in birth from social customs
Low birth and increasing death negative NIR
