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Advantages and Disadvantages of the DTM
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1What are the advantages of the DTM ?
- AIt shows population change.
- BIt can be used to show how the population growth of a country changes over a period of time.
- Cit's very accurate
- DIt's changed every month
- EIt's useful for comparing populations between countries
- FMany people use it
2What are the disadvantages ?
- AThe model assumed that in time all countries would pass through the same stages however it has now become unlikely that Africa will go through the industrial stage ever.
- BIt's not very accurate
- CThe model assumed that the fall in death rate in stage 2 was the consequence of industrialisation. Initially the death rate in many British cities rose due to the insanitary conditions and only began to fall with the advances in medicine .
- DIt's oldfashioned
- EIt's not good at predicting
- FIn many counties the fall in birth rate in stage 3 countries has been less rapid than the model suggests due to religious and political opposition e.g one child policy.
- GNot enough people use it.
- Ha population decline has been caused by several of the most economically developed countries falling below death rates e.g Germany so the model had to have a fifth stage added.
- IThe time scale of the model is being squashed e.g Asia as they develop at much faster rates than in the industrialised countries
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- A levels Geography Quiz on Advantages and Disadvantages of the DTM , created by istarinmcvicar on 26/12/2013.
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