Explain the three stages of demographic transition theory
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Stage I is characterised by high birth rate, death rate and low rate of population growth. ...
stage II leads to a fall in death rates and an increase in population.[11] The changes leading to this stage in Europe were initiated in the Agricultural Revolution of the eighteenth century and were initially quite slow
Stage III is characterised by a falling birth rate, low and stationary death rate and rapidly rising population.
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The theory of demographic transition is based on the actual population trends of the advanced countries of the world. According to this theory, every country passes through three diff6rent stages of population growth. In the first stage, the birth rate and the death rate are high and the growth rate of population is low. In the second stage, the birth rate remains stable but the death rate falls rapidly. As a result, the growth rate of population increases very swiftly. In the last stage, the birth rate starts falling and tends to equal the death rate. The growth rate of population is very slow. C.P. Blacker has mentioned five stages instead of three.