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demographic transition  

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  • A concept of human population change from high to low birth rates and death rates, which accompanies economic development from a rural-agrarian to an urban-industrial society. The standard model of the demographic transition is characterised by a transitional period of population growth, which results from the decline in the fertility rate lagging behind the decline in the mortality rate. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environmental Change; demographic transition]

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