What Is Demographic Transition

question 5

Multiple Choice

What is demographic transition? 

• A) It is the slowing down in the growth of a population that occurs when the population approaches its carrying capacity. 
• B) It is the decline in death rates followed by a decline in birth rates that occurs when a country becomes industrialized. 
• C) It is the decline in death rates followed by a decline in birth rates that occurred when the germ theory of disease was discovered. 
• D) It is the requirement for a population to reach a specific size before it becomes stable.

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Definitions:

Middle 50%

A statistical term referring to the interquartile range, which is the range between the 25th percentile and the 75th percentile of a data set.

Population Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion of a set of values in a population, indicating how spread out the data points are from the population mean.

Arithmetic Mean

The sum of a collection of numbers divided by the count of numbers in the collection.

Median

The middle value in a sorted list of numbers, effectively dividing the data into two equal halves.