For Visually Impaired Candidates in lieu of (Graph Based Question)
Study the given graph carefully and answer the following questions:
a. Why are Fertility and Mortality rates high in the first stage of this theory?
i. People have a lot of buffer stock as food security
ii. People reproduce more to compensate for the deaths due to epidemics.
iii. People are highly educated at this stage.
iv. There is technological advancement in all fields.
b. What led to decline in Mortality rate in the second stage of this theory?
i. Due to improvement in Sanitation and Health conditions.
ii. Due to insufficient supply of food grain that led to starvation.
iii. Due to widespread illiteracy all over the world.
iv. Due to unfavorable sex ratio prevailing in developing countries.
c. Why does fertility rate show a declining trend in the third stage?
i. This is because human beings are not able to adjust their fertility.
ii. Literacy rates show a downward trend all over the world.
iii. The population becomes urbanized and has high technical knowhow.
iv. There is acute food shortage in countries with a high Human Development Index.
d. In which stage of Demographic Transition, population explosion took place :
i. Stage I
ii. Stage II
iii. Stage III
iv. Post Stage III
