One Important Feature of the World's Population with the Most

question 46

Multiple Choice

One important feature of the world's population with the most significant future implications is that

• A) the natural increase rate is larger every year.
• B) there are fewer people in the world now than at the peak in the middle of the twentieth century.
• C) the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries.
• D) people are uniformly distributed across Earth.
• E) the less developed countries have the highest combined crude death rate.

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Definitions:

Davis-Moore Thesis

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Status Symbols

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Intra-Generational Mobility

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