Chapter 6 Flashcards

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What is the demographic trap?

A

what birth rates stay high but death rates decline causing a large increase in population threatening economic and social development.

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What did India do to reduce its population compared to China.

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China built communal farms and instated the 1 child policy. India invested in education (of women as well), healthcare and sent men overseas to work.

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