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Write short note : The demographic transition.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Population Dynamics

Warren Thompson (1929) first grouped countries by their contrasting patterns of birth and death rates; Frank Notestein (1945) turned that classification into the theory of the demographic transition — the movement, under modernisation, from high birth and death rates to low ones, through an intervening phase of rapid growth. It remains demography's only general model…

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  • The stages
  • Why mortality falls before fertility
  • India's transition
  • Criticisms
  • Conclusion

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