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What is the general effect of a declining birth rate if the death rate remains unchanged?

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Correct answer: Natural increase may slow

If the death rate stays unchanged while the birth rate declines, fewer births are added to the population but deaths continue at the same level. The difference between births and deaths therefore becomes smaller. Natural increase may slow, reach zero, or become negative if births eventually fall below deaths. The correct choice is B.

Suppose the birth rate is 24 per 1,000 and the death rate is 8 per 1,000; natural increase is 16 per 1,000. If the birth rate falls to 14 while deaths remain 8, natural increase becomes 6 per 1,000. The population may still grow, but more slowly. A declining birth rate does not automatically make deaths zero or make the population immediately double, so options A, C, and D are incorrect.

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Declining Birth RateSlow Population GrowthNatural IncreaseDemographyPopulation GrowthThe World Population – DistributionDensity And GrowthThe World Population Distribution Density And Growth

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