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The Demographic Transition How do countries develop? Why is it that countries with lower quality of living seem to be the ones with a sky-rocketing population, while developed nations seem to be decreasing, or at least maintaining, population?  Safer conditions should let more families prosper, so why is it that the opposite seems to happen? The answers to all these questions lies in The Demographic Transition. What exactly is The Demographic Transition? Demographic Transition is a model based on the concept of how a country’s birth and death rates, and subsequently its population, changes as it develops as a nation. Many countries use the four stage model while some use the five stage. In this essay I will be using the five stage model. If we want to learn about demographic transition we must first discuss the stage where all countries were for the majority of human history. Since the first countries developed until 1750, all countries were in stage one. Stage one describes a n

Today in class we had a test on The Demographic Transition. The test was fairly difficult, even by Human Geo standards as these tests are somewhat more difficult than other classes. If I was to guess, and hopefully not jinx myself, I would say I got around 90%. I would hope I got a grade such as that as my Human Geo grade is on the verge of a B and I would like to keep my straight As. Personally, the hardest questions for me were the short answers, as I'm sure the rest of my class would agree. While I, assuming I did, do well on this test, I fear the midterm that is slowly yet steadily approaching. Will I be able to remember about three to four months of stuff? Probably not, so I'm forced to subject myself to studying for it, sadly.

Today in class we once more went over the demographic transition. I more or less understood it fully after the first class we went over it. However, as it seems there are still people confused about it we reviewed it once more in class. Demographic transition is defined a s  a model used to represent the movement of high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system. There are four stages we have observed with a fifth one speculated to have certain countries enter/ certain countries already in it.  Stage one is when a nation is struggling. The CDR is really high due to lack of food and medicine among other things, because of this the people have many children to counteract the high CDR. This results in a nation with high CDR and high CBR which cancels each other out leading in a very low NIR. When the nation gets a boost such as the industrial revolution or medical revolution that lowers the CDR the n

Khan Academy video 1. Demographic transition  states that the population will eventually stop growing when the country transitions from high birth rates and high death rates to low birth rates and death rates, stabilizing the population.  2. This stabilization often occurs in industrialized countries, because less developed countries tend to rely on and follow the more developed countries for their advancements. 3. To get a growth rate  of a specific year , you have to take a county's total population at the end of the year and subtract it by the population at the beginning of the year. Then you divide by the total number of people at the beginning of the year. Finally, you can  multiply that by 100 and turn it into a percentage.  ​ ​video from Kim Smith, Ph.D. 1. since the agricultural revolution 8,000 years ago to the industrial revolution, which began in 1750, that the world's population grew only 67,000 people every year, now the world population grows 67,000 people e

Today in class we read a packet about the demographic transition. In summary, the demographic transition is a process by which a nation develops. There are four total stages. Stage one is when a nation is struggling. The CDR is really high due to lack of food and medicine among other things, because of this the people have many children to counteract the high CDR. This results in a nation with high CDR and high CBR which cancels each other out leading in a very low NIR. When the nation gets a boost such as the industrial revolution or medical revolution that lowers the CDR the nation enters stage two. The CDR lowers but the CBR remains the same, which leads to a very high NIR. This makes the population boom. Then, as the nation develops rapidly, it enters stage three. When a nation becomes developed enough, there is no more need to have multiple children. The NIR is still positive but lowers than in stage two. Then, when fewer children produce is encouraged, it enters stage 4.