Question

ntry, killing many people. After many years, the death rate started declining due to agricultural and public health systems. There was more youth population in the country. The country is in which stage of demographic transition? pre-modern urbanization mature industrial PostindustrialA country was experiencing high birth rates because of widespread illiteracy. At the same time an epidemic broke out in this country, killing many people. After many years, the death rate started declining due to agricultural and public health systems. There was more youth population in the country. The country is in which stage of demographic transition? pre-modern urbanization mature industrial Postindustrial

Answer 1

The country is in the second stage of the demographic transition.  The stage two of the demographic transition or urbanizing stage talks about the decreasing death rate which leads to more young people in the country.  In the scenario given, the country also experiences the decreasing death rate because of the improvements in the agricultural and public health systems.  These all goes in the second stage of the demographic transition or also known as the urbanizing stage. 

In urbanizing stage, death rate quickly declined because of the improvements in agricultural aspect which goes down to food supplies, health care delivery, medicine improvements, and even  the investments in sanitation and infrastructure which contributes to the increasing life expectancy of the people and lesser diseases which cause deaths.  Though birth rates remain almost the same, but young population continues to grow because of the low death rate.