Blog Post #35 - Demographic Transition/ Components of Population Growth-

     Today in class we talked more about demographic transition. I also have more notes I'm going to include from a couple days ago. Firstly in Demographic Transition, no country has ever reverted back to a previous stage. In stage one there is low growth. In stage two there is high growth. In stage three there is moderate growth. In stage four there is low growth. Now back to components of population growth... natural increase affects this very much. RNI affects the doubling time number of years needed to double the population assuming a constant rate of natural increase. More than 95% of the natural increase is clustered in developing countries. Here is the summary of Spatial Patterns. Developed countries have lower rates of... natural increase, crude birth rate, total fertility, and infant mortality rate. Developing countries have higher rates of... natural increase, crude birth rate, total fertility, and infant mortality rate.