Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Population Growth
- Stages of the population cycle
- Stage 1
- the population does not grow in this
stage because high death rates cancel
out high birth rates
- Famine,disease and natural disasters cause high death rates
- Stage 2
- Countries develop their economies.The
birth rate remains high but the death rate
declines;population grows.
- Governments provide clean water and health services
- Stage 3
- Economic development more advance.Parents plan family size.Population
growth is less.
- Families have fewer children
- Children live longer = good health services
- Stage 4
- Population growth is very low.Birth and death
rates = very low.
- people survive to old age.
- Countries are wealthy.
- Stage 5
- The death rate is greater than the birth rate.the
population begins to decline in this stage.
- mothers have very few children
- more of the population is elderly