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A country maintains a high birth rate while health improvements rapidly reduce the death rate. What is the likely short-term population effect?

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Correct answer: Natural increase may rise rapidly

Natural increase is determined by the difference between the birth rate and the death rate. If many births continue while deaths fall quickly because of better health, the gap between births and deaths becomes larger. That produces faster natural population growth in the short term. This conclusion concerns natural increase; total population growth can also be affected by immigration and emigration.

Therefore option A is correct: natural increase may rise rapidly. The word “may” allows for other influences, but the demographic effect described clearly pushes the rate upward. The population will not immediately decline, and migration does not automatically become zero. A falling death rate also does not force the birth rate to equal it. Those choices confuse separate demographic processes.

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High Birth RateDeclining Death RateRapid Natural IncreasePopulation GrowthThe World Population – DistributionDensity And GrowthThe World Population Distribution Density And GrowthGeography

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