The Demographic Transition 9/22/09

Today in class we learned more about the Demographic Transition. The Demographic Transition is a model in which there are 4 stages that tracks the birthrates and death rates through time as a population urbanizes.We learned many things about it. We learned that the United States, europe, Japan are all stage 4 countries. stage 1 is preidustrial, stage 2 is transitional, stage 3 is transitional, and stage 4 is industrial.