Based on the video, describe a characteristic of a country in an advanced stage of industrialization regarding birth and death rates, and population growth.

Low birth and death rates, leading to stable or declining population.

What factors typically lead to a fall in birth rates as a country progresses through industrialization?

Increased education, more opportunities for women outside of child-rearing, and a move from rural to urban living.

Factors Affecting Population Growth

9th Grade•75 minutes•Standard 9 - Use mathematical comparisons and visual representations to support or refute explanations of factors that affect population growth.

Learning Objective

I can use graphs to explain how different factors affect population growth.

Key Concepts

Population pyramids divide data by gender, with females on one side and males on the other, and show population numbers for each five-year age interval.

Rwanda's population pyramid shows a fast-growing country, while Japan's shows a population that will begin to decline as fewer people reach reproductive age.

Countries in advanced stages of industrialization reach a point where both birth and death rates are low, and the population remains stable or even begins to decline.

Practice Questions

This lesson includes 12 practice questions to reinforce learning.

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1. What type of graph is used to represent the internal distribution of a population by age and gender?

2. What are the three main age groups demographers use when analyzing population pyramids?

3. Explain how a population pyramid can be used to predict future population trends.

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Population pyramids: Powerful predictors of the future - Kim Preshoff

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