Deeper explanation of Demographic Transition

Today in class we went into deeper explanation about the demographic transition. We basically got a better understanding as to why these stages occurred and how they affected the population. For example stage 2 happened because of the industrial revolution. But why? because the industrial revolution gave the population an opportunity to make a substantial amount of money which gave them the chance to have better health care and food. We discussed this for all of the stages. We then watched a video about the demographic transition and it was pretty basic and understandable for the most part.

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