Demographic Transitions

While everyone that was either not here or was in the play over this week was taking the test that they missed, we got to have lots of fun looking up demographic transition. Demographic transition is when a country has a high rate of natural increase and as the country develops it suddenly drops and becomes a low rate of natural increase. An example of when this happened is in the U.S.A. When the U.S. was a developing country, it had babies at an incredible rate. About 4 per woman and then we developed and our population was very large so people started having fewer babies. Now we're still increasing but barely. We have a rate of 2.42 babies per woman.