Analysis Of Demographic Transition

Introduction

This assignment talks about The Introduction to Demography, mainly on the topic Demographic Transition. This assignment cover topics like the meaning of Demographic Transition, how fast the world’s population is growing even though the growth rate is slowly declining.

There are also many factors affecting the population of different countries, but this assignment covers the Cultural Factors such as the Religion and people’s believe that affect the population of different countries in the world.

This assignment also covers in detail about the different phases in demographic transition as there are five stages and how birth and death rates affect in each stage. It contains graphical illustrations of each stage for better understanding

This is interpreted through a demographic transition model (DTM). The theory is based on an interpretation of demographic history developed in 1929 by the American demographer Warren Thompson (1887-1973).

The world’s population growth

Anthropologists believe that the human species dates back at least 3 million years. They say that our ancestors lived as hunters and gatherers and therefore, the population was less than 10 million.

However, as agriculture was introduced, communities evolved and supported more people, which in turn helped in increasing of the population.

The world’s population increased by about 300 million as of A.D 1 and continued to increase at a moderate

Conversely, some cultures and religions discourage large families which affects in the decrease of birth rate.

• Some religions like Christianity encourage education which inversely leads to civilised thinking amongst the people and leads to lower birth rates. However, some religions such as Muslim are strongly against women getting educated and therefore they have large families which lead to high population growth rate.

• Countries with a high literacy rate show lesser growth of population than a country with a lower literacy rate. A high literate country’s people know about family planning and the good points of having a small family. They also get married late. All these results in a declining population growth rate.

• The social status of women also affects the rate of population growth. Women who belong to the higher status in the society seem to marry later in their age whereby reducing the birth rate. Women who belong to the lower status in the society tend to get married faster thereby producing more number of