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Stage
1
Stage
2
Stage
3
Stage
4
Birth
rate
Natural
Increase
Death
rate
Time
Note: Natural increase is produced from the excess of births over deaths.
Typical of Britain in the 18th century and the Least Economically Developed
Countries (LEDC's) today.
China; Brazil.
rates. This has caused, for the first time, a population decline
which suggests that perhaps the model should have a fifth
stage added to it.
2. The model assumes that in time all countries pass through
the same four stages. It now seems unlikely, however, that
many LEDCs, especially in Africa, will ever become
industrialized.
Source: High School Geography: The World at Your Fingertips, 2015, Edublogs Campus, http://hs-geography.ism-online.org/2010/09/07/the-demographic-transition-model/
3. The model assumes that the fall in the death rate in Stage 2 was