Demographic Transition Model Stages

Match the characteristics with Stage 1 of the Demographic Transition Model:

• High, fluctuating birth rates

• Isolated tribal communities in Papua New Guinea

• Primarily hunting and gathering societies

• High, fluctuating birth rates

• High CDR

• High CDR

• Isolated tribal communities in Papua New Guinea

• Primarily hunting and gathering societies

Match the characteristics with Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model:

• Rapid RNI

• LDC

• LDC

• Rapidly declining CDR

• Rapidly declining CDR

• High birth rates

• Receding pandemics as sanitation, nutrition, and medicine reduce spread of disease

• Receding pandemics as sanitation, nutrition, and medicine reduce spread of disease

• High birth rates

• Rapid RNI

Match the characteristics with Stage 3 of the Demographic Transition Model:

• Stage 3 of the Demographic Transition Model

• Slowing RNI

• Stage 3 of the Demographic Transition Model

• Gradually declining CDR

• Stage 3 of the Demographic Transition Model

• Transitional (falling) birth rates

• Stage 3 of the Demographic Transition Model

• Newly Industrializing Country (NIC)

• Stage 3 of the Demographic Transition Model

• LDC

Match the characteristics with Stage 4 of the Demographic Transition Model:

• Stable or slow RNI

• MDC

• Zero population growth

• Low CDR

• Below replacement

• Stable or slow RNI

• Low CDR

• Zero population growth

• MDC

• Below replacement

Match the characteristics with Stage 5 of the Demographic Transition Model:

• Stage 5 of the Demographic Transition Model

• Pro-natalist policies likely

• Stage 5 of the Demographic Transition Model

• MDC

• Stage 5 of the Demographic Transition Model

• Net in-migration / pro-immigration policy / guest worker programs

• Stage 5 of the Demographic Transition Model

• High elderly dependency ratio