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* demographic analysis can be empowered by these categories
* demographic analysis can be empowered by these categories
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==== pre-Stage 1 ====
* pre-Agriculture or early agriculture (Neolithic)
* hunter-gatherers
* nomadic pastoral (herders)
* low fertility rates
** hunter-gatherer societies, women typically have babies every 4-5 years
* stable population
===== Stage 1 =====
===== Stage 1 =====
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* marked by both high birth and death rates
 
*pre-industrial agricultural period 
*high fertility rates
**in pre-industrial agricultural societies, women typically have babies every 2 years
*high birth rates coincident w/ high death rates
**= stable population
**= high birth rate for population replacement 
*most people involved in agriculture
**includes herding, farming
*population dependent upon food supply
**susceptible to famines and environmental
***susceptible = easily impacted by
===== Stage 2 =====
===== Stage 2 =====
* falling death rates and ongoing high birth rates
* = high population growth
* declines in death rates due to
** higher agricultural yields, due to
*** crop rotation
*** soil management
*** seed and seeding technologies
** lower early-age death rates due to better hygiene
* public health improvement due to
** sewerage:
*** fresh water supply
*** sewage disposal
*** general better hygiene
* ongoing high-birth rates due to dependence on agriculture


===== Stage 3 =====
===== Stage 3 =====
* low death rates and lower birth rates
* lower fertility
** less need for farm labor
** contraception
* movement of women into workforce
** more educational opportunities for women
* urbanization
* increase in literacy
* decline in '''youth dependency ratio'''
** leads to increasing population aging
===== Stage 4 =====
===== Stage 4 =====
* lower death and birth rates
** leads to decline in population growth
* larger female integration into education and workplace and general independence
===== Stage 5 =====
===== Stage 5 =====
* lower death rates and birth rates below replacement levels
** '''sub-replacement fertility'''
* population aging and decline
* Stage 5 countries without immigration will have population declines
==== key terms ====
==== key terms ====
===== agriculture =====  
===== agriculture =====  
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* contraception
* contraception
* population momentum
* population momentum
* population aging
* sub-replacement fertility
* baby boom
* baby boom
* urbanization  
* urbanization