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What is meant by demographic transition?
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Answer
Demographic transition is the change a population goes through as a country develops: from a high birth rate with a high death rate and slow growth, through a stage where the death rate falls but the birth rate stays high and the population grows fast, to a stage where both are low and growth is slow again.
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Explanation
India is in the middle stage, which is why its population is still rising.
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