Blog Day Forty- Four: Demographic Transition

Today in class we read from an excerpt from a textbook about demographic transition and reviewed our religion quiz. This is the first time in the class where we have read from a textbook to get our information. Usually we take notes of a PowerPoint, but this time we highlighted information from the text. We will have a quiz on this information next Monday. The demographic transition is defined as a process with four stages and every country is in one of them. In stage 1 the country has a very high CBR and CDR with a very low NIR. For most of human history all countries spent their time in the first stage, yet no countries remain there today. In stage 2 the countries have a high CBR, a rapidly declining CDR with a very High NIR. The Industrial Revolution and the medical revolution both many countries to go from stage 1 to stage 2. In stage 3 the county has a rapidly declining CBR, a moderately declining CDR, and a moderate NIR. In the final stage, stage 4, the country has a very low CBR, a low or slightly increasing CDR, with a zero or negative NIR. At the end of stage 4 one can say that the country has completed a cycle. This was a cool topic to learn and I can't wait to learn more about demographic transition.