Question

A country experiences population explosion when it gets stuck for long in a stage of demographic transition in which-

• A. Birth rate is high and death rate is high.
• B. Birth rate is low and death rate is low.
• C. Death rate falls steeply but the birth rate continues to be high.
• D. Both birth rate and death rate fall steeply.

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

Death rate falls steeply but the birth rate continues to be high.

Demographic transition theory can be used to describe and predict the future population of any area. The theory tells us that population of any region changes from high births and high deaths to low births and low deaths as society progresses from rural agrarian and illiterate to urban industrial and literate society.