demographic transition theory is a widespread explanation of the changing mold of humanity, fertility and increase rates as civilizations move from one demographic system to another. “The term was first coined by the American demographer Frank W. Notestein in the mid-twentieth century, but it has since been elaborated and expanded upon by many others” (The Demographic Transition, 2012). There are four stages of demographic transition.
The first stage of the demographic transition is called pre-industrial. In this stage, the population is stable. The birth and death rates are both high. The death rates are at a high due to the increase of disease, poor medical and personal hygiene care along with the limited supplies of food. With the death rates being high, people are having more babies to help with mortality rates being so high. With the birth and death rates being equal, the population growth stays at a zero.
The second stage of the demographic transition theory is called the transitional stage. In this state the population starts to increase. This happens because the birth rates are high and the death rates are starting to decline. The second stage is when the “development of modern medicine and food distribution is started to take hold and the death rate starts to diminish.” (Saucedo, 2011)
The reason the death rates are starting to decline is due to the reason that the country is transitioning into an industrial county. This means that there are improvements in the
The first period was a very long period of time where the rate of population growth was very low. The second period was a shorter period of time that lasted up until about 1962 and it had a large increase in population growth. Finally the third period is the current period and it is where the population growth rate starts to decrease. The decrease in the population growth rate is due to the improving living and health conditions. Another reason for the growth rate going down is that parents, families, and other people are becoming more aware of the increasing population and the dangers or hazards that it will bring.
In developed countries the birth and infant mortality rate is lower than developing countries. With the developing countries having a higher birth rate they also have a higher infant mortality rate. It is difficult to predict the earth’s population growth because of the different stages a country might be in, or how fast they move from one to another. Stage one is preindustrial, this is when the birth rate is high but so is the death rate so the population is low. Stage two is the transitional stage where the birth rate is still high but health care has gotten better so the death rate has decreased and the population is skyrocketing. Stage three is the industrial stage this is when the birth rate is still increasing even though the death rate has stayed the same making the population still increase. In the final stage postindustrial the birth rates are very low because of birth control and people desiring smaller families. The death rate is still how and the population slowly
Chapter 16 also brings up the issue of population increase. With the demographic transition theory, we learn about the trends of each societies as they go through modernization. In the book as well as the article, we learn about IPAT. Formula
How have the social and demographic changes of the last century led to the increased growth and aging of the population? Be sure to discuss this in terms of the demographic transition theory.
The Medical Revolution was a period of time where medicinal technology in Europe prevented the deaths of thousands of citizens. This marked the shift from Stage 2 to Stage 3 of the demographic transition model, as crude death rate significantly decreases. The natural rate of increase also increases, while the crude birth rate does not
Demographic transition is the process by which a nation/country moves from high birth rate and high death rates to low birth and low death rates as the growth population in the interim (Weeks, 2005). Some of the nations that have gone through this transitions are; Canada, Germany, United States and England. The demographic transition to an industrialized society is harmful to the environment. Industrialized countries also have the largest ecological and carbon footprint comparative to developing/non-industrialized nations. Nevertheless, demographic transitions have some notable advantages. Countries that have gone through demographic transitions have low birth and death rates. Citizens in
The second stage of the demographic transition theory is called the transitional stage. In this state the population starts to increase. This happens because the birth rates are high and the death rates are starting to decline. The second stage is when the “development of modern medicine and food distribution is started to take hold and
The demographic transition model describes how the population of a country changes over time. It gives changes in birth rates and death rates, and shows that countries pass through five different stages of population change (Stage one – High fluctuation, Stage two – Early expanding, Stage three – Late expanding, Stage four – Low fluctuating and Stage five – Decline)
The demographic transition is a three-stage model of population growth in Europe. In the first stage there is a stable population because birth and death rates are both high. The second stage happens as mortality rates begin to slowly decline, but birth rates stay high. When this stage happens, there is fast population growth. During the third stage, the population is more stable as both birth and death rates are low and are more or less balanced. In more recent years, a fourth stage as been brought on by Anti-Malthusians. During this stage, population shrinkage occurs because the deaths begin to outnumber the births. Europe provides a great example to the theory of demographic transition. After speedy population growth of stage two, Europe settled at stage three with a stable population. It is currently in stage four with a shrinking population. In most European nations there are lesser births than deaths which could ultimately create other social problems.
Throughout the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution shifted Europe exponentially from a basic, morbid society, to become highly intricate and economically prosperous. Urbanization spread throughout Europe making unsafe working areas and conditions no longer a problem for the average worker due to government 's safety laws. By increasing the low wages, it allowed the men of Europe to fully support their families, eliminating children and women from working in the factories. These changes during the industrial era created a positive attitude for the European working class, who sought to move up into the middle class. Politics was also influenced during this beneficial time period. Democracy was being spread and implemented by countries
Many things like high unemployment, different cultural traits and the spread of cities have created two totally different countries. The comparison between the two countries further the accuracy of the demographic transition model because it shows the different stages of development. For instance, South Africa has a high birth and death rate while the US has low birth rates and death rates showing that the US is more developed. We can see this by looking at the difference in things like unemployment rate and life expectancy. Overall the US is more developed than South Africa shown by the differences between things like population, culture and
Introduction Demography is a scientific analysis of the human condition that studies areas such as growth rate, density, size, distribution and vital statistics. Broadly speaking, demography is the statistical study of human life. It deals primarily with such vital facts as birth, physical growth, marriage, sickness and death and incidentally with political, social, educational, religious, sanitary, hygienic and medical matters (Whipple, 1919). An integral part of vital statistics is population patterns, which are used by various sectors of the population to predict the future growth or decline of mankind. Life tables and survivorship curves are also used to provide historical trends on human survival over different time periods.
Demographic transitions also can be key component in the death rates we observed over the past 200 years. The curve was influenced greatly over the past 100 years and will be again in the next 100 years. The curves may again change to show_______________________________ in the next 100 years. (cite a
To begin with a demographic transition is basically the changes that occur within a society’s population whereby these are changes from high levels of crude birth and death rates with a low rate of natural increase to lower levels of crude death and birth rates yet still having a low rate of natural increase and having a higher total population, and all of these changes that occurs goes back to either developments in economy or changes in standard of living. Now as we all know each and every country has once experienced and witnessed changes in their population either having transformations in favor of the population or the opposite thus causing many disadvantages to the population. This process of the transition consists
This is the second stage of the Theory of Demographic Transition. In this stage, birth rate does not come down from the High Stationary Stage but death rate gets very much declined, which triggers very rapid growth in the population change. In this stage, the nation provides the better public health services to the people so that the people will not depart from the life so rapidly, and the declining in infant