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A country has a natural increase rate of 1.5 percent and a net migration rate of -0.5 percent. What is the total growth rate?

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Correct answer: 1 percent

Answer: B, 1 percent. Total population growth is found by combining natural increase with net migration: total growth rate = natural increase rate + net migration rate. Substitute the values: 1.5% + (−0.5%) = 1.0%. The negative migration rate means that net out-migration reduces the growth produced by births exceeding deaths. Option A is not obtained from the correct signed calculation. Option C ignores migration completely and uses only the natural increase rate. Option D adds the numerical magnitudes, but it wrongly treats negative migration as positive migration. Keep the minus sign attached to the migration rate throughout the calculation. Thus the country still grows, but only by 1 percent.

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Total Growth RateNatural IncreaseNet MigrationDemography CalculationPopulation GrowthThe World Population – DistributionDensity And GrowthThe World Population Distribution Density And GrowthGeography

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