Demographic Transition Theory

• proposed in 1929 by Warren Thompson, an American Demographer

• three Stages of Economic & Societal Growth Before Reaching Stabilization

• -Stage 1: High Birth & Death Rates, Stable Pop.
• -Stage 2: High Birth & Low Death Rates, Surging Population
• -Stage 3: Low Birth & Death Rates, Stabilizing Pop. & Economic Quality of life Improves

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