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Demographic transition (Topical Term)

Preferred form: Demographic transition
Used for/see from:
  • Transition, Demographic
  • Vital revolution (Demography)

Here are entered works on the theory that the initial effect of modernization in human societies is a growing margin of births over deaths and an accelerating rate of population growth, and that at a later stage of socioeconomic development the size of the family is reduced by birth control and the birth rate falls, eventually reducing the rate of population growth.

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