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A country's population is growing because its death rate has fallen sharply through better healthcare, while its birth rate remains high. In the demographic transition model, this situation corresponds to which stage?

This is the early expanding stage of demographic transition. Death rates fall because of better healthcare and sanitation while birth rates remain high, so the population grows rapidly. The first stage has both rates high and a stable population, so it does not fit.

  1. AStage of high birth and high death rates with a stable population
  2. BEarly expanding stage with high birth rate and declining death rateCorrect
  3. CLate stage with low birth and low death rates
  4. DDeclining stage with birth rate below death rate

Explanation

In the early expanding stage, improvements in medicine and sanitation reduce the death rate while the birth rate stays high, so natural increase is rapid. The first stage has both rates high and a stable population, so it is wrong, since death rates here have already fallen.

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