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Diagram Courtesy of Max Roser
Birth rate is high to compensate for high infant mortality rate. Poorer countries are in this stage.
Industrialization begins. Access to food and improved healthcare lowers death rate.
Death rate drops due to improved medicine, and modernization. Mostly developed countries are in this stage.
Birth rate drops to equal zero population growth. If Birth rate falls below death rate than population will decrease