Draw neat and labelled diagram : First and second stages of Demographic Transition Theory.

Answer: [Diagram: graph with time on the X-axis and birth rate/death rate (per 1000) on the Y-axis, showing Stage I and Stage II.]

Draw two curves: birth rate (solid line) and death rate (dashed line). Shade the gap between them as natural increase. Label Stage I and Stage II, birth rate, death rate, natural increase, total population (optional curve).

• Stage I (High stationary): both birth rate and death rate are high (about 35–40 per 1000) and fluctuate; population growth is very slow. Agricultural, pre-industrial societies.
• Stage II (Early expanding): birth rate stays high, but death rate falls rapidly due to better food supply, medicine and sanitation; the wide gap gives a population explosion. Many developing countries of Africa and Asia have been in this stage.