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2010 2050
• 1. China • 1. India
• 2. India • 2. China
• 3. U.S. • 3. U.S.
• 4. Indonesia • 4. Pakistan
• 5. Brazil • 5. Nigeria
• 6. Pakistan • 6. Indonesia
• 7. Bangladesh • 7. Bangladesh
• 8. Nigeria • 8. Brazil
• 9. Russia • 9. Ethiopia
• 10. Japan • 10. Democratic Republic of the Congo
PDS
DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION
• A process of change in a
society’s population
c. People have even fewer children due to things such as more women in the
workforce, more leisure, time, more use on birth control … - push from 3 to 4
Which stage am I?
1. CBR and CDR are about the same, have good technology, food supply
and health care
3. CBR stays relatively the same as it was in the previous stage, but CDR
plummets
4. NIR increases, but moderately, as gap between CDR and CBR narrows
Which stage am I?
1. CBR and CDR are about the same, have good technology, food supply
and health care ; zero population growth
(Stage 4)
3. CBR stays relatively the same as it was in the previous stage, but CDR
plummets
(Stage 2)
3. NIR increases, but moderately, as gap between CDR and CBR narrows;
CBR drops sharply
As a country moves through the demographic transition, the shape
of the pyramid flattens. Cape Verde’s pyramid has a broad base, as
is typical of a country in Stage 2. Chile’s graph still resembles a
pyramid and Denmark’s pyramid is flat, an indication of the aging
of the population.
STAGE 2-High Growth: CAPE VERDE
(p.64)
STAGE 3-Moderat Growth: CHILE (p.65)
STAGE 4-Low Growth: DENMARK (p.66)
POPULATION PYRAMIDS
• Draw a pyramid representing • Draw 2 pyramids, not labeled,
each stage (2,3,4) – no pyramid that your classmates will have to
for stage 1 identify ( they can be any stage)
• Population increases
geometrically
Neo-Malthusians Critics
• Food supply of Malthus
is not fixed, it can
• Believe it is worse than Malthus be expanded (possibilism)
anticipated:
INDIA CHINA
• 1952 – becomes first country to start a • Began the One Child Policy in 1980
national family planning program • Subsidies
• Longer maternity leave
• Permit
• Clinics provide info about methods of • More land, maybe
birth control • Delayed marriage
• Free contraceptives
• Abortion is legal
• Role of the State Family Planning
• Sterilization program? Commission?