Birth Rates Generally Reach Their Highest Point in Which Stage

question 64

Multiple Choice

Birth rates generally reach their highest point in which stage of a country's demographic transition?

• A) preindustrial
• B) transitional
• C) industrial
• D) postindustrial
• E) stage 1

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