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The demographic transition model accounts for the rise and fall in population, the birth rate, death rate, population size and growth.
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Population growth is ultimately decided by the amount of births and deaths, and the balance of the main inputs and outputs of population, inputs to the population being births and immigrants, outputs being the deaths and emigrants. The proportion to which is what really matters.
The demographic transition model accounts for the rise and fall in population, the birth rate, death rate, population size and growth. Different cultures, society's and geographical places have different reasons for being either under or over populated. For example, the Philippines, a mainly catholic country, is very overpopulated, because of the religion of the vast majority of the country, they don't use contraception or family planning, and so families can end up having many more children than is the 'norm' for say England, where the average number of children per household is 2, whereas, in the Philippines the average number of children per house is 5, and so the population rises.
However, in places like Canada, where the population is around 33,000,000 people, so why does Canada have a low population density? It's because Canada is such a large country, the whole population is distributed very sparsely and there are
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Response to the question
Overall the response to the question is very good, as the candidate discusses in reasonable depth about each stage of the demographic transitional model (DTM). The answer also talks about the DTM as a whole model, however, no negative outlooks on the DTM are given, which are always important to note. The answer also includes the movement of a country through the DTM and the effects on the population, which is an excellent response. Appropriate case studies are used, although they could be more in depth/more case studies could be used i.e. one for each of the 4/5 stages of the DTM. So although the response is adequate it would have to include more insight to gain top marks.
Level of analysis
There is a good level of analysis, but again more detail could be included. There are some good statistics mentioned, for example the population of 33,000,000 people in Canada, which is an excellent comparative to use, but unfortunately it was not compared to any other case study. Mentioning the NHS was also very good, as it major conveys differences between certain factors in a country such as healthcare which directly affect the population and their position in the DTM. The case study of Cuba could have been used to show that different political regimes also have an affect on a country in comparison to its neighbouring countries. The brief note of NICs and BRICs was excellent as it shows the candidate is at a higher level.
Quality of writing
The quality of writing was very good through, however, instead of using the term richer and poorer countries, the terms LEDC and MEDC should have been used throughout. Punctuation was excellent.
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