Skyrocketing growth of the human population appears to be mainly ...

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Skyrocketing growth of the human population appears to be mainly a result of
a. a drop in death rate due to sanitation and health care.
b. better nutrition boosting the birth rate.
c. the concentration of humans in cities.
d. social changes that make it desirable to have more children.

Accepted Answer

Hi everyone. Welcome back. Let's look at our next problem. It says determine the factors responsible for the decline in birth rate during stage three of the democratic demographic transition. So we'll just put up a chart so we can recall um what those stages are the five stages of the demographic transition. We've got stage one, the high birth and death rate leading to a slow or stable population growth. Stage two. The birth rate is high, but the death rate starts to drop, leading to faster population growth. Were interested in stage three when the birth rate starts to fall, our death rate is still low and slow population growth slows Stage four, the same level, low level of birth and death rates leading to zero population growth. And then stage five. Little change in population growth can fall further or rise. So we're wanting to look what are the factors responsible when you see birth rates start to fall in stage three and notice that choice D. Is all of the above. So we have a choice a access to contraception. Well, this would cause a decrease in birth rate. Um So this is definitely one of the factors, but again, we can have more than one, correct. So we'll just note that choice be an improvement in women's status and education. Uh This also tends to lead to lower birth rates. So let's check that there as women get married at later ages and start to have Children at later ages. Choice c improved economic conditions. Um This leads to less dependence on child labor and less need for large families to help work, and so that also leads to lower birth rates. So we see we have three correct answers here, so we'll select Choice D. All of the above. So which factors are responsible for the decline in birth rate during stage 3? The Demographic Transition Choice D. All of the above. See you in the next video.

Skyrocketing growth of the human population appears to be mainly a result of a. a drop in death rate due to sanitation and health care. b. better nutrition boosting the birth rate. c. the concentration of humans in cities. d. social changes that make it desirable to have more children.

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