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demographic transitions

demographic transitions is the plural of demographic transition.

Meaning of demographic transition

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

Questions about demographic transitions

What is demographic transitions the plural of?
Demographic transitions is the plural of demographic transition.

Words near demographic transitions in the dictionary

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

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