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demographic transition

demographic transition noun: the process that represents the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.

Noun

demographic transition (countable and uncountable, plural demographic transitions)

  1. The process that represents the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.
    • Yet it does bring up a much more real problem about China's demographic transition, which has led some to argue that China will "get old before it gets rich."2011 February 18, James Fallows, “How to Solve China's Gender Imbalance? The 'Babe Tax'”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2011

Forms of demographic transition

pluraldemographic transitions

Questions about demographic transition

What does demographic transition mean?
Demographic transition means the process that represents the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.
What part of speech is demographic transition?
Demographic transition is a noun.
What is the plural of demographic transition?
The plural of demographic transition is demographic transitions.

Words near demographic transition in the dictionary

  1. demographers
  2. demographic
  3. demographic dividend
  4. demographic dividends
  5. demographic tax
  6. demographic transition
  7. demographic transitions
  8. demographical
  9. demographically
  10. demographics
  11. demographies

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