The
effects of modernisation on demographic change
The effects of this
modernisation on the course of demographic change were summarised by Notestein
as follows:
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The demographic revolution
which takes a country out of the high stationary phase is intiated by a
permanent and continuous decline in mortality.
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This decline in mortality
is caused by the cumulative influences of the agrigcultural, industrial
and sanitary revolutions which lead to better food supplies, an improvement
in the standard of living in general, and the improvements in public health.
Rapid population
growth results from the widening gap between declining death rates and
unchanging birth rates.
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