According to the Demographic Transition Theory, the third stage in a demographic cycle is marked by:
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. low fertility low mortality.
| Demographic Transition | In Stage 3 of the Demographic Transition Model (DTM), death rates are low and birth rates decrease, usually as a result of improved economic conditions, an increase in women's status and education, and access to contraception. |
| The "Demographic Transition" is a model that describes population change over time. | |
| It is based on an interpretation begun in 1929 by the American demographer Warren Thompson, of the observed changes, or transitions, in birth and death rates in industrialized societies over the past two hundred years or so. |