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Demographic
transition “theory” is strong descriptively. It was based on the description of
secular trends in birth and death rates that were manifest in Western countries as they
passed through the Industrial Revolution. The demographic transition, as a framework, is
useful for classifying populations. For example, a remote Amazonian tribe might fit
in the pre-transitional stage, less developed nations, by definition, belong in one or
other of the two transitional stages, and the more developed nations fit the
post-transitional stage. |
